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New Delhi,(Crypto Queen Ruja Ignatova): is originally from Bulgaria and was a doctor by profession. After seeing the success of Bitcoin, Ruja launched OneCoin.
According to court documents, Ruza deposited at least $4 billion in OneCoin between 2014 and 2017. Ruja was supposed to attend an event in Lisbon in October 2017 but she never made it and has been missing since.
A few years ago today, a woman had a worldwide name. She described herself as the crypto queen and the woman claimed to have created a crypto currency named ‘OneCoin’. He named this currency as bitcoin killer. The name of this woman was Ruja Ignatova. Ruja is now in the news again as the FBI has included her name in its top 10 most wanted list.
Ruja Ignatova She was born in 1980 in Sofia, Bulgaria. When Ruja was ten years old, her family moved to Germany. Then in the year 2005, Ruja did her PhD in Law from the University of Konstanz. After this, Ruja joined Mackenzie & Company to become a Management Consultant. Ruja is said to have studied at Oxford University but now absconding Ruja is accused of cheating his investors of $ 4 billion.
In 2014, while working at Mackenzie & Company, Ruja Ignatova created a cryptocurrency named ‘OneCoin’, this was told to investors in several seminars. Ruja claimed that his cryptocurrency would surpass even bitcoin. After which many people invested in Ruja’s crypto currency. However, now Ruza, who is absconding after raising billions of dollars in fake crypto currency, has been named in the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.Also Read: Neeraj Chopra broke national record for the second time
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has also placed a $100,000 bounty on Ruza, who disappeared from Greece in October 2017. Ruja raised nearly $4 billion in funding from investors after launching OneCoin. Shockingly, his crypto currency OneCoin was not linked to any blockchain technology like other crypto currencies are.
FBI Special Agent Ronald Shimko said in a statement, “OneCoin claimed to be a private blockchain from investors. Whereas this is not the case with other cryptocurrencies. The FBI claims that Ruza promoted OneCoin and raised large amounts of money with the help of large advertisements and influencers. Investors were asked to add more people and get commission money into their crypto accounts.
There is also a claim by the FBI that, after Ruza learned that investors had come to know the truth and that US and other investigative agencies had reached out to her accomplices, Ignatova disappeared in 2017. According to the FBI, Ruza was last seen on October 25, 2017 while traveling from Bulgaria to Athens, Greece. There are many such things about Ruja in which it was said that maybe she has done plastic surgery or she has died.