{"id":64829,"date":"2022-06-03T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=64829"},"modified":"2022-06-03T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T09:01:07","slug":"bulgarian-chief-prosecutor-accused-of-willfully-failing-to-act-against-onecoin-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=64829","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Accused of Willfully Failing to Act Against Onecoin Fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1482188978.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>The legal representative of victims of the Onecoin bitcoin scam operation, Jonathan Levy, has accused the Bulgarian prosecutor of deliberately failing to take action against Onecoin. The lawyer said due to the prosecutor\u2019s inaction, more victims are losing millions of dollars to the fraudsters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Prosecutor Refusing to Take Action Against Ruja Ignatova\u2019s Mother<\/h2>\n<p>A lawyer representing victims of the Onecoin bitcoin Ponzi scheme, Jonathan Levy, has suggested that the criminal scheme\u2019s masterminds may be getting protection from the Bulgarian chief prosecutor, Ivan Geshev. In an open letter addressed to Yuliya Kovacheva, Bulgaria\u2019s deputy minister of justice, the lawyer claimed Geshev\u2019s inaction has allowed Onecoin to defraud new victims of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-529503\" title=\"Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Accused of Willfully Failing to Act Against Onecoin Fraudsters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/greshev.png\" alt=\"Bulgarian Chief Prosecutor Accused of Willfully Failing to Act Against Onecoin Fraudsters\" width=\"749\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/greshev-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/greshev.png 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\"><\/p>\n<p>According to Levy, the prosecutor has failed to act against the key Onecoin mastermind Ruja Ignatova\u2019s mother, despite the existence of arrest warrants that have been issued by Interpol, Europol, and German law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/onecoin-crypto-queen-ruja-ignatova-listed-among-europes-most-wanted\/\">reported<\/a> by Bitcoin.com News, Ignatova was placed on Europol\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/eumostwanted.eu\/#\/ignatova-ruja\">most wanted<\/a> list after the law enforcement group accused her of being the driving force and intellectual inventor of Onecoin. The agency has since offered a reward of more than $5,300 to anyone with information that may lead to Ignatova\u2019s capture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Bulgarian Government Urged to Probe Chief Prosecutor<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a letter in which he expresses his dissatisfaction with Geshev\u2019s conduct, Levy accuses the prosecutor of not only failing to take action against Veska Ignatova (Ruja\u2019s mother), but also of failing to act against \u201cother Onecoin mafia in Bulgaria that continue the Onecoin criminal operation on behalf of the fugitive Ruja Ignatova.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter also suggests that if Geshev were to take action, Onecoin masterminds would be forced to halt operations. He added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This nonfeasance by the Prosecutor\u2019s Office is allowing the Sofia office of OneCoin to maintain operations throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia and continue to receive millions of Euros in payments in cryptocurrency (<a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a>, <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/ETH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETH<\/a>, <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/USDT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USDT<\/a>) on a monthly basis from new victims.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Levy concludes his letter by urging the Bulgarian government to launch a probe into the prosecutor\u2019s conduct.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What are your thoughts on this story? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal representative of victims of the Onecoin bitcoin scam operation, Jonathan Levy, has accused the Bulgarian prosecutor of deliberately failing to take action against Onecoin. The lawyer said due to the prosecutor\u2019s inaction, more victims are losing millions of dollars to the fraudsters. Prosecutor Refusing to Take Action Against Ruja Ignatova\u2019s Mother A lawyer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}