We have now followed her trail in an attempt to learn her fate. Eye Investigations and Panorama have looked into the allegations that she was brutally murdered and her close relationship to a rumored boss of Bulgarian organized crime. Did Ms. Ignatova take pleasure in the billions that were pilfered, or did those who were hired to defend her murder her?
Ruja Ignatova, an Oxford University alumna who was raised in Germany after being born in Bulgaria, pursued a prosperous career in finance prior to establishing the cryptocurrency OneCoin in 2014.
Ms. Ignatova persuaded a vast number of it,
However, Ms. Ignatova, sometimes referred to as Dr. Ruja by many, had actually constructed a deceptively-veiled investment scam, devoid of the digital record that underpins reputable cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
In October 2017, as German and American detectives were closing in on Ms. Ignatova, she boarded an early Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens, where she vanished from sight.
The BBC World Service’s Eye Investigations and Panorama have been investigating her disappearance and whether or not she is still alive for the past year.
Determining who her inner circle was was crucial to this.