Ignatova, a German citizen born in Bulgaria, has been listed as a top FBI target since 2022 due to allegations of money laundering and fraud.
The 43-year-old is charged with marketing a phony cryptocurrency dubbed OneCoin, which was established in Sofia in 2014, and cheating investors out of $4 billion (£3.3 billion).
The US government had previously offered a reward of $100,000 (£82,463) for her capture. It has described OneCoin as one of the biggest global fraud schemes in history.
That has since increased to £4 million, though.
It is thought that Ignatova travels with associates or armed guards. Ignatova’s FBI wanted poster suggests that she may have undergone plastic surgery or changed her appearance in some other way.
In the meantime, Ignatova vanished in late 2017, and on Wednesday, Bulgaria’s top prosecutor declared he will bring charges against her.
According to him, she will also face charges in our nation while she is abroad, opening the door for her unlawfully obtained belongings to be seized.
On October 25, 2017, Ignatova was last seen traveling from Sofia to Athens on a Ryanair flight.
Prosecutors claim that she left after bugging her American boyfriend’s apartment and discovering he was working with the FBI.
The FBI stated that it thought she made off with a “tremendous amount of cash”—enough money to buy a lot of friends—when it put her on its most-wanted list.
