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OneCoin Founders Arrested: Charged Billions for Fraud

Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova, the founders of OneCoin Ponzi Scheme were arrested in Los Angeles airport on Wednesday,
Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova, the founders of OneCoin Ponzi Scheme were arrested in Los Angeles airport on Wednesday, 6th March.

Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova, the founders of OneCoin Ponzi Scheme were arrested in Los Angeles airport on Wednesday, 6th March. As per the announcement made by the US Attorney Office of the Southern District of New York, a US district attorney has charged the founders who are accused of securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering by tempting people to invest billions in the cryptocurrency scam.

OneCoin was founded in Bulgaria in 2014 as a multi-level marketing project. The members of the project received a commission for attracting more and more investors to buy the OneCoin cryptocurrency. The network of the company grew massively and had already attracted more than 3 million investors globally.

According to the investigation, OneCoin made more than $3.77 billion in sales revenue and around $2.25 billion in profits between the 4th quarter of 2014 and 3rd quarter of 2016.

The district court attorney said that the founders performed an old-school pyramid scheme on a new-school program which compromised the probity of the financial system of New York and extracting billions from people in the form of investments.

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