A BBC investigation into the fate of Ruja Ignatova, the flamboyant founder of fake cryptocurrency OneCoin…and the world’s most wanted woman.
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Dubbed the “Missing Cryptoqueen”, Ruja Ignatova is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list after defrauding investors of $4.5 billion and then vanishing. Now, #BBCEye and #BBCPanorama investigate her close ties to a suspected Bulgarian organised crime boss and allegations that she was brutally assassinated.
This #BBCWorldService documentary has exclusive access to the US special agent in charge of tracking Ignatova down and follows a brave Bulgarian journalist who’s faced grave threats trying to get to the truth.
Did the missing Cryptoqueen run with the money, or was she fatally targeted by the very people that were supposed to protect her?
00:00 Introduction
02:20 The Cryptoqueen
06:00 Financial revolution?
09:05 The Hunter
12:36 The Spy
14:00 Are they onto me?
19:05 Ruja vanishes
22:51 Murky finances
24:10 Extortion
28:28 Organised crime
32:25 Meet Dimitar
37:46 Most Wanted Woman
41:30 Vanished or victim?
43:30 Secret document
47:00 Cape Town horror
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Credits:
Head of Longform – Liz Gibbons
BBC Eye Editor – Marc Perkins
Executive Producer – Michael Simkin
Produced and Directed by Storm Theunissen
Narrated by Caroline Catz
Film Editor – Nick Follows
Shooting Producer – Max Hudson
Directors of Photography – Graham Smith, Will Francome, Jon Stapleton,
Additional Camera – Namak Khoshnaw, Oana Marocico, Kevin McGregor
Assistant Camera – Katie Green
Producer – Yordan Tsalov
Impact Producers – Vicky Baker, Tom Donkin, Emma Jacobs, Anusha Kumar, Paul Organe, Emaan Warraich
Technical Producers – David Smith, Regan Wharton
Post Production Producer – Anna Norqvist
Production Executive – Nayantara Gauba
Production Manager – Jessica Butler
Production Management Assistant – Catia Da Costa
Dubbing Mixer – Andy Sears
Colourist – Michael Sanders
Online Editor – Ben Salkeld
Researchers – Harry Atteshlis, Tetiana Martyniuk
Translators – Boryana Desheva, Krassimira Twigg
Archive Researcher – Kate Rea
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She is still alive and will die of natural causes.
Once sawa her in kamakis apa Ruiru
The government is a biggest mafia 😮😂🎉
She is an intelligence asset.
I have a crazy theory. She may have not changed only her face, but everything about her. Picture this, she had sex reassignment surgery, takes testosterone and is now living as a MAN. Everyone is looking for a beautiful woman living luxuriously, not an immigrant man, doing menial jobs….
Sheer scam of astronomical proportional!…!
Love of money
scammer🤣😆😆🤣😁😁
U lot are dumb, ruja is definitely alive and well, she’s either a big player in takis establishment. Am also thinking she could be takis woman
she surley swiming with the fishes in Greece
She looks like a Gypsy 😳
It’s like an antelope getting in bed with Lions; the minute her company went bust she became a liability. I really can’t see how she’d still be alive because it’d be so easy for them to extract every detail of where and how to access the money from her.
FBI is a joke – $100K reward for woman worth $4 billlion – ha ha ha ha
Bulgari Wise Guys with steroids 😮
This will be a movie if we ever get more Infor
I wonder the situation is with her daughter. I'm guessing the daughter is cared for by family and investigators would probably find out if there was contact with the mother. They mention the christening but nothing more.
I’m one of victims. She is dead now Wow.
I love these investigative documentaries BBC! Keep them coming!
Bunch of greedy a88holes, found a professional scammer, without proper background checks
I'm guessing dead. Now I watch.
Shes a freemason. Probably hiding with an oligarch
Nothing about Validus ?
Some who worked with her say the story is all twisted, and that she is innocent.
Looks like she was just a front for the whole sham. She certainly had too much planned out for her just to be shifting hundreds of millions about herself whilst living the life of luxury.
The only other option is she is the actual head of the Bulgarian crime syndicate and Taki is just the fixer.
Also very strange that her boyfriend doesn't seem to have squealed too much to the FBI and is barely mentioned in the 2nd half of this documentary – you would imagine he knew the whole shooting match.
She was clearly woke
Why’s everyone got a man bun tho 😂
She had to act like the smartest one in the room since she sure wasn't the prettiest one in the room.
She's hiding in plain site.
She is dead. Come on. Do you really think they left her alive?
My guess is Canada…..they have massive unchecked waves of people from India, entire cities which are basically Indian, and a mindset that prevents any investigation for fear of being labelled racist by the inept government. Remember the Air India bombing?, the actual Nazi in parliament?….Canada is an easy hideout for sure….
Good for her. She's got a hose out n doing fine
People are so stupid
listen people there's no such thing as get rich quick ok
How about the FBI?
I think there is some discrepancies in this study. Her PR Evgeny Minchev said that Ruja disappeared in London. He waited he in one party. She didn’t come. Last person who seen her was her headdress. He made her hear for the party she didn’t go.
I wouldn't be surprised this Cryptoqueen's story will be made into a movie one day.
Old video 👎🏴
not Frank
Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner