• Bulgarian national Irina Dilkinska has been charged with fraud and money laundering related to the notorious crypto pyramid scheme Onecoin.
• Dilkinska was the head of legal and compliance at Onecoin, accused of enabling the company to launder millions of U.S. dollars through shell firms.
• The founder of Onecoin, Ruja Ignatova, is still wanted by Interpol, Europol and FBI with a possibility that she might have been murdered in 2018.
Charges against Former Onecoin Executive
Authorities in the U.S. have announced charges against a former Onecoin executive for her alleged role in the notorious crypto pyramid scheme. Bulgarian national Irina Dilkinska may face up to four decades in prison if found guilty on counts of fraud and money laundering.
Extradition from Bulgaria
Judicial and law enforcement officials in the U.S. have pressed charges against a 41-year-old woman in connection with her participation in Onecoin, one of the largest scams in crypto history. Irina Dilkinska was extradited from Bulgaria, where the massive crypto Ponzi scheme was based. Established in 2014, Onecoin offered investors a fake cryptocurrency by the same name, branded as ‚the Bitcoin killer‘ at a point, through a global multi-level-marketing network according to its own materials.
OneCoin’s Alleged Money Laundering
Dilkinska was accused of enabling Onecoin to launder millions of U.S. dollars through shell firms as allegedly stated by authorities and companies created by her were also used to hold property on behalf of founder Ruja Ignatova –a Bulgarian-born German citizen– who disappeared less than two weeks after she was charged with fraud and money laundering in 2017 U.S District Court for Southern District Of New York .
Charges Against Dilkinska
Dilkinska has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering which each carry maximum potential sentence of 20 years imprisonment; she is also accused burning documents related to this case before leaving Bulgaria for US last December 2020 when an arrest warrant was issued against her .
Wanted Cryptoqueen
The mastermind behind this scam dubbed ‘the missing Cryptoqueen’ is still wanted by Interpol , Europol ,and FBI ; while recent media reports suggest that she might have been murdered back 2018 .