The right-hand man of the OneCoin crypto-queen may get forty years

The Bulgarian participant in the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam will stand trial in the United States. Irina Dilkinska, head of legal and compliance at OneCoin, could face up to 40 years in prison.

Irina Dilkinska, who worked as head of legal and compliance at OneCoin, was charged by US authorities for her alleged role in the infamous crypto scam and deported from Bulgaria to the US. The maximum prison sentence is 20 years for suspected online fraud and an additional 20 years for allegedly violating money laundering laws, he writes. a Cryptopotato.

OneCoin was not only a pyramid, it was also a money launderer

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a recent press release that Dilkinska will appear before a US judge. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams alleged that the 41-year-old Bulgarian enabled the OneCoin crypto pyramid scheme to launder millions of dollars in illegal profits from crime through front companies.

Dilkinska was helped by a wide circleughin maintaining a system that caused millions of victims and billions of dollars in losses – he added.

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FBI Deputy Director Michael Driscoll also maintains that she helped her accomplice Mark Scott launder nearly $400 million in OneCoin proceeds. In addition, he burned key documents and sent incriminating messages to Konstantin Ignatov when he learned of Scott’s arrest. Some of the texts allegedly seen by officials read:

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Five years have already been allotted

According to the US Department of Justice, Dilkinska also managed a property of the head of OneCoin, Ruja Ignatová, better known as the “crypto queen”. Gilbert Armenta, Ignatova’s former boyfriend, also appeared in court recently. A judge in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) sentenced him to five years in prison for laundering $300 million in proceeds from the OneCoin scam.

What happened to the OneCoin “crypto queen”?

Despite the recent arrests of several individuals associated with OneCoin, the whereabouts of the head of the scheme remain unknown. Multiple reports indicated that Ignatova, who was last seen in Athens, Greece in 2017, may be hiding on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean. The theory sounds plausible as the authorities do not have the authority to detain people within twelve nautical miles of the coast.

Chopped up or not?

A Bulgarian source recently hinted that “the crypto queen” may have been brutally murdered in November 2018. The hitman, on behalf of a local drug lord (who was involved in his scams), allegedly dismembered her body and dumped her remains in the Ionian Sea.

On the other hand, a luxury apartment worth nearly $15 million (which Ignatova bought a few years ago) resurfaced on the London real estate market earlier this year, suggesting that Ignatova may be alive after all.