Ruja Ignatova

Bulgarian businesswoman, prosecuted for cryptocurrency fraud

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Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, also known by the nickname "Cryptoqueen", is a Bulgarian-German entrepreneur and con artist. She is one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, and is best known as the founder of the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin, which The Times described as "one of the biggest scams in history." She was the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the 2022 book of the same name. Ignatova boarded a Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens on October 25, 2017, and has not been seen since.