The promoters were looking for investors, attracting them by making false promises. The Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation in response to a victim’s complaint.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Argentine city of Córdoba ordered the arrest of 12 people linked to the Ponzi OneCoin scheme. Eight of the suspects were detained, while the rest are at large, including Ruja Ignatova, better known as the crypto queen, and her brother Konstantin Ignatova. They are accused of crimes of illicit association and alleged fraud through a false cryptocurrency.
The public body ordered the arrest of citizens at the request of the Prosecutor for Complex Crimes. The OneCoin scam would have left hundreds of victims in the city of Córdoba and the rest of Argentina. In this context, the Complex Causes Investigations Unit carried out various raids; these raids were created to search for evidence, as reported by local media.
Edgar Moreno, a well-known broadcaster and journalist in Córdoba is among those arrested. The group is completed by Gustavo Adolfo Amuchástegui, Andrés Matías López, Mariana Noel López, Manuel Vicente Peralta Guevara, Mónica Gabriela Blasco, Daniel Cornaglia and Ricardo Beretta. While among the fugitives are Eduardo Alejandro Taylor and José Gordo, in addition to the aforementioned Ignatova brothers.
OneCoin Victim Demands Justice
The actions of the prosecution would have been supported by a complaint of a victim, who was contacted in 2018 by the promoters of OneCoin. After several meetings and multiple promises, the victim ended up depositing more than $ 70,000 to acquire a cryptocurrency that has never existed, according to digital media.
The scam growth is so big that it is even possible to find its promotions on almost every social media platform in social networks. There are tons of examples of the promotional activities that several of the detainees organized to attract new victims.
Among them, there is an event that took place in 2018 that was attended by Konstantin Ignatova, who assumed the leadership of the scam after the disappearance of the crypto queen, founder of OneCoin.
Konstantin got caught in Los Angeles International Airport in March 2019. He pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October.
OneCoin appears to be one of the biggest scams in the history of cryptocurrencies. Its founder, Ruja Ignatova, traveled the entire world in search of people who believed and were willing to invest in her idea: a revolutionary and potential cryptocurrency that would enrich whoever had it.
Thousands of people believed they were investing in a real project until one day in 2017; they were hit by the news of the disappearance of the crypto queen who, since then, has been wanted by the FBI.
OneCoin promoters have been arrested for scams in Italy, Singapore, and other countries. In early July, two of these operators were found murdered in Mexico.
By: Jenson Nuñez.
