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Irina Dilkinska, who reportedly served arsenic “Head of Legal and Compliance” for the expected crypto project, pleaded blameworthy to charges of ligament fraud and wealth laundering connected Nov. 9 successful a Manhattan national court.
The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams.
OneCoin, founded successful 2014 by Ruja Ignatova and Karl Sebastian Greenwood, operated arsenic a planetary multi-level-marketing (MLM) web based successful Sofia, Bulgaria. The cryptocurrency claimed to connection lucrative yields based connected the magnitude of tokens users held connected a phony platform.
OneCoin managed to dupe millions of radical worldwide, with victims investing implicit $4 cardinal successful the fraudulent scheme.
Head of ineligible and compliance
Dilkinska’s blameworthy plea reveals her complicity successful facilitating the laundering of millions of dollars successful illicit profits accrued done OneCoin’s MLM structure.
Despite her relation arsenic “Head of Legal and Compliance,” Dilkinska actively participated successful the day-to-day operations of OneCoin, including orchestrating the transportation of $110 cardinal successful fraudulently obtained proceeds to a Cayman Islands entity.
Williams commented:
“As OneCoin’s alleged ‘Head of Legal and Compliance,’ Irina Dilkinska accomplished the nonstop other extremity of her position. The dedicated prosecutors of this Office and our instrumentality enforcement partners volition proceed to prosecute this important lawsuit until each suspect is brought to justice.”
Dilkinska pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate wealth laundering. The maximum imaginable condemnation for these charges is 5 years successful situation each.
Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 14, 2024.
Crypto Queen remains astatine large
The allegations against OneCoin item a pyramid strategy that attracted implicit 3 cardinal investors worldwide betwixt 2014 and 2016.
During those years, OneCoin reported income gross of €4.037 cardinal and earned “profits” of €2.735 billion. The strategy was yet unopen down aft droves of victims began reporting the task to section authorities, and aggregate governments stepped successful to unopen down OneCoin’s operations.
Ignatova, the self-proclaimed “Crypto Queen,” had already vanished earlier she was charged with fraud and wealth laundering by U.S. authorities successful 2017 and remains astatine large. Her whereabouts are unknown.
Media reports successful 2022 claimed that Ignatova whitethorn person been assassinated disconnected the seashore of Greece by a Bulgarian cause lord who was besides progressive with the task down the scenes. However, the claims were ne'er substantiated owed to the questionable veracity of the grounds successful the case.
The FBI continues to question accusation astir the whereabouts of Ignatova, who is connected the Top Ten Most Wanted List, with a $100,000 reward for accusation starring to her arrest.
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