What does a OneLife-produced event look like? Is the organization that supports the OneCoin community competent enough to produce a beauty pageant? The answer to those questions might surprise you. For this fourth episode, Jamie Bartlett and Georgia Catt go into the lion\u2019s den. They travel to Bucharest, Romania, and witness the Miss OneLife coronation. Apparently, the event had some of \u201cthe world\u2019s most famous brands as sponsors.\u201d However, as it happens with everything Dr. Ruja related, things are not what they seem.<\/p>\n
This episode\u2019s guest star is Christi Calina, who\u2019s a OneLife \u201cindependent marketing associate\u201d and one of the event\u2019s producers. Since the man\u2019s ghosting them, Jamie and Georgia ambush him at a OneLife event in the same city. The conference \u201clooks like the real deal, just like OneCoin,\u201d Jamie evaluates. There, they get access to the Miss OneLife event and things take a turn for the mysterious.<\/p>\n
Remember, you can download episodes directly from the BBC<\/a>, or listen to \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen\u201d through Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, or iVoox<\/a>.<\/p>\n In this episode, Jamie and Georgia go through the charges against Konstantin Ignatov, Dr. Ruja\u2019s brother. They contain some of the FBI documents about the case and include emails between Dr. Ruja and \u201cother top leaders\u201d of the OneLife organization. In those, the people allegedly discuss how the scam works in detail. If those are real, there\u2019s no doubt that OneCoin was a very deliberate scam from the very beginning. They even discuss how to fake the mining of the supposed cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n In those emails, Dr. Ruja discusses a possible exit strategy and proposes they could \u201ctake the money and run and blame someone else for this.\u201d<\/p>\n Later on, the FBI claims Dr. Ruja is \u201cdirectly associated with significant players in the Easter European organized crime.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to know that OneCoin disputes all of these allegations. We included part of their denial in the quotes section. We also included concrete information about Dr. Ruja\u2019s disappearance and a new factor that might explain why she fled at the time she did.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n BTC price chart for 10\/25\/2022 on Bitstamp | Source: BTC\/USD on TradingView.com<\/a><\/p>\n Our heroes go into the eye of the storm. They can barely enter the premises because everyone in the OneLife organization knows exactly who they are. They don\u2019t blend in. Everyone is \u201csmartly dressed.\u201d Bottles of Moet and cigars abound. The production is slick. A stage comes down from the ceiling and Jamie loses his mind. In the end, they both admit that the OneLife organization can throw a hell of an event. It was boring, though. And it doesn\u2019t look like any cryptocurrency-related function that the podcast host has ever attended.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOneCoin is still going and there\u2019s a lot of money here,\u201d Jamie says before fleeing the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n Back in London, the producers fact-check everything that happened. The famous brands that were supposedly attached to the Miss OneLife pageant deny sponsorship. They\u2019ve never heard of the event. Then, they contact Forbes and the magazine denies that Dr. Ruja was ever on the cover like the organization made seem in their promotional material. Then, they check on her education claims. As it turns out, Dr. Ruja did go to Oxford and got the degree she claims to have.<\/p>\n To finish the episode off, Jamie interviews Miss OneLife UK. She gives them peripheral information, like the event\u2019s ticketing wasn\u2019t open to the public and one of the prizes was a gift card for cosmetic surgery. Then, Jamie mentions Dr. Ruja. She says that she heard someone important was at the event, but couldn\u2019t remember if it was her.<\/p>\n Is it possible that Dr. Ruja was in attendance at the Miss OneLife event? Apparently, \u201cshe\u2019s unrecognizable now.\u201d<\/p>\n This story gets more fascinating by the minute.<\/p>\n OneCoin\u2019s statement:<\/p>\n \u201cOneCoin disputes all allegations. To our claim that OneCoin is not a cryptocurrency and that its nominal price is not determined by demand and supply, but is manipulated and set internally, they said: \u201cOneCoin verifiably fulfills all criteria of the definition of cryptocurrency, and also those of a transparent pricing that is in line with the common market\u201d. The BBC podcast series, they say, \u201cis based on testimonials of haters, former employees who were either fired or disgracefully dismissed for internal company violations, intellectual property theft, and other violations. Thus, the series will not present any truthful information and cannot be considered objective, nor unbiased.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Concrete information about Dr. Ruja\u2019s disappearance, and a new factor that might explain why she fled:<\/p>\n \u201cThe FBI files also contained valuable new information about Dr. Ruja\u2019s disappearance. \u201cBulgarian travel records show that on or about October 25th, 2017, Ruja flew on Ryanair from Sofia, Bulgaria to Athens, Greece.\u201d Dr. Ruja was last seen in Sozopol, in around July 2017. That was on her private yacht, the Davina, the one we saw. On October 7th, she then failed to turn up at a OneCoin event in Lisbon. But now we know that her last known whereabouts was in fact Athens on 25th October 2017. And there\u2019s some more clues here.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last week, I said that the US authorities charged Dr. Ruja in absentia in March 2019. That\u2019s not the whole story. We\u2019ve learned that Dr. Ruja was actually indicted on 12th October 2017, but this indictment was sealed until March 2019. It was just two weeks after that first indictment that Dr. Ruja vanished. Is it possible she could have been tipped off?\u201d<\/p>\n As you probably know if you\u2019ve gotten this far in the series, Dr. Ruja is on the FBI\u2019s most-wanted list<\/a>. The text under her name says:<\/p>\n \u201cRuja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged participation in a large-scale fraud scheme. Beginning in approximately 2014, Ignatova and others are alleged to have defrauded billions of dollars from investors all over the world.\u00a0 Ignatova was the founder of OneCoin Ltd., a Bulgaria-based company that marketed a purported cryptocurrency.\u00a0 In order to execute the scheme, Ignatova allegedly made false statements and representations to individuals in order to solicit investments in OneCoin.\u00a0 She allegedly instructed victims to transmit investment funds to OneCoin accounts in order to purchase OneCoin packages, causing victims to send wire transfers representing these investments.\u00a0 Throughout the scheme, OneCoin is believed to have defrauded victims out of more than $4 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n And finally, the episode\u2019s credits:<\/p>\n Presenter: Jamie Bartlett Ep. 01 \u2013 https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/bitcoin\/ep01-dr-ruja-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast\/<\/a><\/p>\n Ep. 02 \u2013 https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/bitcoin\/ep02-btc-killer-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast\/<\/a><\/p>\n Ep. 03 \u2013 https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/altcoin\/ep03-onecoin-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast\/<\/a><\/p>\n Featured Image: The Missing Cryptoqueen’s logo from the BBC<\/a> | Charts by TradingView<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n What does a OneLife-produced event look like? Is the organization that supports the OneCoin community competent enough to produce a beauty pageant? The answer to those questions might surprise you. For this fourth episode, Jamie Bartlett and Georgia Catt go into the lion\u2019s den. They travel to Bucharest, Romania, and witness the Miss OneLife coronation. Apparently, the event had some of \u201cthe world\u2019s most famous brands as sponsors.\u201d However, as it happens with everything Dr. Ruja related, things are not what they seem.<\/p>\n This episode\u2019s guest star is Christi Calina, who\u2019s a OneLife \u201cindependent marketing associate\u201d and one of the event\u2019s producers. Since the man\u2019s ghosting them, Jamie and Georgia ambush him at a OneLife event in the same city. The conference \u201clooks like the real deal, just like OneCoin,\u201d Jamie evaluates. There, they get access to the Miss OneLife event and things take a turn for the mysterious.<\/p>\n Remember, you can download episodes directly from the BBC<\/a>, or listen to \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen\u201d through Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, or iVoox<\/a>.<\/p>\n In this episode, Jamie and Georgia go through the charges against Konstantin Ignatov, Dr. Ruja\u2019s brother. They contain some of the FBI documents about the case and include emails between Dr. Ruja and \u201cother top leaders\u201d of the OneLife organization. In those, the people allegedly discuss how the scam works in detail. If those are real, there\u2019s no doubt that OneCoin was a very deliberate scam from the very beginning. They even discuss how to fake the mining of the supposed cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n In those emails, Dr. Ruja discusses a possible exit strategy and proposes they could \u201ctake the money and run and blame someone else for this.\u201d<\/p>\n Later on, the FBI claims Dr. Ruja is \u201cdirectly associated with significant players in the Easter European organized crime.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s important to know that OneCoin disputes all of these allegations. We included part of their denial in the quotes section. We also included concrete information about Dr. Ruja\u2019s disappearance and a new factor that might explain why she fled at the time she did.\u00a0<\/p>\n BTC price chart for 10\/25\/2022 on Bitstamp | Source: BTC\/USD on TradingView.com<\/a><\/p>\n Our heroes go into the eye of the storm. They can barely enter the premises because everyone in the OneLife organization knows exactly who they are. They don\u2019t blend in. Everyone is \u201csmartly dressed.\u201d Bottles of Moet and cigars abound. The production is slick. A stage comes down from the ceiling and Jamie loses his mind. In the end, they both admit that the OneLife organization can throw a hell of an event. It was boring, though. And it doesn\u2019t look like any cryptocurrency-related function that the podcast host has ever attended.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOneCoin is still going and there\u2019s a lot of money here,\u201d Jamie says before fleeing the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n Back in London, the producers fact-check everything that happened. The famous brands that were supposedly attached to the Miss OneLife pageant deny sponsorship. They\u2019ve never heard of the event. Then, they contact Forbes and the magazine denies that Dr. Ruja was ever on the cover like the organization made seem in their promotional material. Then, they check on her education claims. As it turns out, Dr. Ruja did go to Oxford and got the degree she claims to have.<\/p>\n To finish the episode off, Jamie interviews Miss OneLife UK. She gives them peripheral information, like the event\u2019s ticketing wasn\u2019t open to the public and one of the prizes was a gift card for cosmetic surgery. Then, Jamie mentions Dr. Ruja. She says that she heard someone important was at the event, but couldn\u2019t remember if it was her.<\/p>\n Is it possible that Dr. Ruja was in attendance at the Miss OneLife event? Apparently, \u201cshe\u2019s unrecognizable now.\u201d<\/p>\n This story gets more fascinating by the minute.<\/p>\n OneCoin\u2019s statement:<\/p>\n \u201cOneCoin disputes all allegations. To our claim that OneCoin is not a cryptocurrency and that its nominal price is not determined by demand and supply, but is manipulated and set internally, they said: \u201cOneCoin verifiably fulfills all criteria of the definition of cryptocurrency, and also those of a transparent pricing that is in line with the common market\u201d. The BBC podcast series, they say, \u201cis based on testimonials of haters, former employees who were either fired or disgracefully dismissed for internal company violations, intellectual property theft, and other violations. Thus, the series will not present any truthful information and cannot be considered objective, nor unbiased.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Concrete information about Dr. Ruja\u2019s disappearance, and a new factor that might explain why she fled:<\/p>\n \u201cThe FBI files also contained valuable new information about Dr. Ruja\u2019s disappearance. \u201cBulgarian travel records show that on or about October 25th, 2017, Ruja flew on Ryanair from Sofia, Bulgaria to Athens, Greece.\u201d Dr. Ruja was last seen in Sozopol, in around July 2017. That was on her private yacht, the Davina, the one we saw. On October 7th, she then failed to turn up at a OneCoin event in Lisbon. But now we know that her last known whereabouts was in fact Athens on 25th October 2017. And there\u2019s some more clues here.\u00a0<\/p>\n Last week, I said that the US authorities charged Dr. Ruja in absentia in March 2019. That\u2019s not the whole story. We\u2019ve learned that Dr. Ruja was actually indicted on 12th October 2017, but this indictment was sealed until March 2019. It was just two weeks after that first indictment that Dr. Ruja vanished. Is it possible she could have been tipped off?\u201d<\/p>\n As you probably know if you\u2019ve gotten this far in the series, Dr. Ruja is on the FBI\u2019s most-wanted list<\/a>. The text under her name says:<\/p>\n \u201cRuja Ignatova is wanted for her alleged participation in a large-scale fraud scheme. Beginning in approximately 2014, Ignatova and others are alleged to have defrauded billions of dollars from investors all over the world.\u00a0 Ignatova was the founder of OneCoin Ltd., a Bulgaria-based company that marketed a purported cryptocurrency.\u00a0 In order to execute the scheme, Ignatova allegedly made false statements and representations to individuals in order to solicit investments in OneCoin.\u00a0 She allegedly instructed victims to transmit investment funds to OneCoin accounts in order to purchase OneCoin packages, causing victims to send wire transfers representing these investments.\u00a0 Throughout the scheme, OneCoin is believed to have defrauded victims out of more than $4 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n And finally, the episode\u2019s credits:<\/p>\n Presenter: Jamie Bartlett Ep. 01 \u2013 https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/bitcoin\/ep01-dr-ruja-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast\/<\/a><\/p>\n Ep. 02 \u2013 https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/bitcoin\/ep02-btc-killer-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast\/<\/a><\/p>\n Ep. 03 \u2013 https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/altcoin\/ep03-onecoin-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast\/<\/a><\/p>\n Featured Image: The Missing Cryptoqueen’s logo from the BBC<\/a> | Charts by TradingView<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptocornercafe.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen\u2019s\u201d Episode Four \u2013 \u201cMiss OneLife\u201d<\/h2>\n
The Miss OneLife Beauty Pageant<\/h2>\n
Quotes From \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen\u2019s\u201d Episode Four \u2013 \u201cMiss OneLife\u201d<\/h2>\n
Extra Material And Episode Credits<\/h2>\n
\nProducer: Georgia Catt
\nStory consultant: Chris Berube
\nEditor: Philip Sellars
\nOriginal music and sound design: Phil Channell
\nOriginal music and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London Bulgarian Choir<\/p>\nPrevious Companion Guides For BBC\u2019s \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen\u201d Podcast:<\/h2>\n
About \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen\u2019s\u201d Episode Four \u2013 \u201cMiss OneLife\u201d<\/h2>\n
The Miss OneLife Beauty Pageant<\/h2>\n
Quotes From \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen\u2019s\u201d Episode Four \u2013 \u201cMiss OneLife\u201d<\/h2>\n
Extra Material And Episode Credits<\/h2>\n
\nProducer: Georgia Catt
\nStory consultant: Chris Berube
\nEditor: Philip Sellars
\nOriginal music and sound design: Phil Channell
\nOriginal music and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London Bulgarian Choir<\/p>\nPrevious Companion Guides For BBC\u2019s \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen\u201d Podcast:<\/h2>\n