Where is Ruja Ignatova, cryptoqueen charged for duping people of $4 billion; FBI has $5 million bounty on her, is she in Russia or has she been murdered?
Ruja Ignatova, who is also known as a 'cryptoqueen', who ran the initiative known as Onecoin, and is responsible for duping billions from people who invested in it. Bulgarian-born Ignatova disappeared in 2017 simply disappeared from the face of the Earth since 2017 and has ben untraceable since then.
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What has happened to cryptoqueen Ignatova?
There came a major development in June last year when the FBI increased the bounty on her head from $250,000 to a whopping $5 million, so that they readily got any information from any interested party about her whereabouts. Some reports suggest that Ruja may be in hiding with the due assistance of various crime groups and families hat may be giving her protection in exchange for money or the likes of it.
Many felt that a million dollar bounty would just motivate someone to give her up for the right kind of money and itis also a sign that the FBI is refocusing on locating Ignatova and bring her to justice for defrauding billions off of investors.
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Who is Ruja Ignatova?
Ruja Ignatova is a Bulgarian-born German entrepreneur who is the founder of OneCoin Ltd., a Bulgaria-based company that marketed a purported cryptocurrency, that ended up defrauding investors.
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