Ruja Ignatova: The Crypto Queen Who Scammed $4 Billion With a Fake Bitcoin Killer | OneCoin

This is the story of Ruja Ignatova — the woman the world came to know as the Crypto Queen. Behind her was OneCoin, marketed as a “Bitcoin killer” and sold in 175 countries as the next great cryptocurrency. In reality, it was the biggest crypto scam in history: a $4 billion fraud with no blockchain, no real coin, and no way out for the investors who believed in it. Today, Ruja Ignatova is the only woman on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, with a $5 million reward on her head — and nearly a decade after her disappearance, no one knows if she is alive. From a Bulgarian immigrant family in Germany to a PhD in Law, McKinsey & Company, and a sold-out Wembley Arena — Ruja Ignatova sold millions of people a dream. Behind the fireworks and the red dress stood Sebastian Greenwood, the architec