OneCoin victims request Bulgaria to confiscate assets and compensation-
OneCoin victims request Bulgaria to confiscate assets and compensation-
A lawyer who represents investors who were cheated by the notorious crypto fraud on one coin has asked the authorities in Bulgaria to work in this case, and claimed that the "world's largest pyramid system" still operated on from the country. In a petition to the Bulgarian Constitutional Mombudsman, Jonathan Levy accuses Sofia not to let the victims do not have justice and at the same time protect "the most notorious criminal organization".
lawyer criticizes Bulgarian authorities for "misfeasance" in the Onecoin case
In the Petition , Dr. Levy noted that OneCoin was recognized as a criminal company by a number of countries, including the United States, Argentina and Germany and classified by law enforcement authorities such as the FBI as a pyramid system. At the same time, the 20-billion euro cryptocurrency fraud allegedly maintains several offices in the Bulgarian capital, uses a number of corporate identities, continues its activities unabated and even has a Recruiting-Event Last summer.
The crypto ponzi system OneCoin was launched in 2014 and by the offshore company OneCoin Ltd based in Dubai, based in Bulgaria and the Onelife Network Ltd. Advertised. Both were founded by the pyramid born in Bulgaria. KRYPTO king ' Ruja Ignatova, also German citizen and did her doctorate in private law, and her partner Sebastian Greenwood from Sweden.
Ignatova disappeared in 2017, while her brother Konstantin Ignatov, another OneCoin co-founder, was arrested in Los Angeles in 2019 and charged with financial crimes. Since then he has been working with the law enforcement authorities, said on OneCoins connections to organized crime in Bulgaria and elsewhere, said guilty and asked for witness protection. The program was also associated with terrorist financing. A number of people who were involved in the investigation and court proceedings, including Ignatov, have complained about legal and other threats.
The document presented by Jonathan Levy lists a number of other key figures of fraud and claims that "Ignatovs, OneCoin and their deputies in Bulgaria and Dubai are currently controlling movable and immovable property, investments, cryptocurrencies, bank accounts and cash of more than 12.5 billion euros". “($ 14.2 billion).
The lawyer criticizes the Bulgarian authorities in this case because of their limited measures and is reminiscent of a single general warning of OneCoin, which was published by the financial supervisory commission in 2015, which later ignored the matter, as well as the police raids to his offices in Sofia in 2018, ordered by IVAN GEHEV, who is now acting as Bulgarian general prosecutor and when asked by Europol and the German police. Levy also says:
We are not known to arrest or confiscate bank accounts, cash, cryptocurrency or property of the victims. If the Bulgarian law enforcement authorities have confiscated assets, it has not provided public bookkeeping or a procedure for compensation for the victims.
According to the legal representative, OneCoin is the largest pyramid system in world history and surpasses both the madoff and mavrodi pyramid. However, the submitted complaint mainly affects the Bulgarian operation of OneCoin, the full extent of which remains unknown, and is "based on the misconduct of the Bulgarian law enforcement authorities in relation to its obligations prescribed by the EU.
In the petition, which was submitted in the name of customers from a number of countries, including Great Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia, Jonathan Levy emphasizes that according to Article 47 of the EU fundamental rights charta and similar provisions in Bulgarian law OneCoin victims, which they have not yet received from Bulgaria. He accuses the country, an EU member state, and says that "shooters and enables oncoin apparently to keep its assets and continue to operate, even though it is the most notorious criminal organization of the 21st century".
The petent emphatically asks Bulgaria to account for the assets of Crypto Scam, including the 12 billion euro-bitcoin stock of Ignatova
Levy demands that the Bulgarian ombudsman examine the behavior of various government institutions such as the Attorney General, the Justice and Interior Ministries and the Directorate for Financial Information in the country. He also insists on taking steps to “end one -coins open and public business in Bulgaria, which continues to harass investors worldwide.
The lawyer also needs the support of the Bulgarian authorities to take into account the Onecoin assets controlled by Bulgaria, which according to the document supposedly from 230,000 bitcoins , cash, luxury cars, jewelry and precious metals, bank accounts, investments and real estate, to set, to set, whether they are still owned by Ignatova and their employees or were confiscated by Bulgaria.
Jonathan Levy also insists that the government in Sofia in Sofia in relation to the remuneration by OneCoin victims according to European law such as the Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and the EU Council Directive 2004/80/EC of April 29, 2004.
The petent also calls for the "definition of a monetary reward of up to 1 billion euros" to encourage, present, present and provide information about the crypto investment fraud and its activities, "especially with regard to the 230,000 bitcoins that are in possession". by Ruja Ignatova or her deputy worth over 12 billion euros. ” The money for this purpose, Dr.