{"id":27099,"date":"2020-08-11T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T07:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27099"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:46:36","slug":"onecoin-lawyers-win-removal-of-pyramid-warning-from-uk-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/onecoin-lawyers-win-removal-of-pyramid-warning-from-uk-regulator\/","title":{"rendered":"OneCoin lawyers win removal of pyramid warning from UK regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) removed OneCoin&#8217;s pyramid warning from its website under pressure from lawyers, according to the authors of the BBC Sounds podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re BACK!<\/p>\n<p>The story is even crazier than we thought.<\/p>\n<p>Episode 9 of The Missing Cryptoqueen coming soon\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cryptoqueen?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cryptoqueen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgiaJCatt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeorgiaJCatt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trailer here:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HeOxO4BnhM\">https:\/\/t.co\/HeOxO4BnhM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Bartlett (@JamieJBartlett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamieJBartlett\/status\/1288400651479908352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Journalists Jamie Bartlett and Georgina Cat met with lawyer Gary Gilford, whom representatives of OneCoin hired to set up a London family office to manage the assets of the project&#8217;s founder, Ruja Ignatova.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, former spy Frank Schneider, a OneCoin partner, engaged the law firm Carter-Ruck and reputation-management company Chelgate to pressure the FCA.<\/p>\n<p>Once the warning about potential fraud disappeared from the regulator\u2019s site, OneCoin\u2019s representatives used it for a PR campaign. For many victims, this became a convincing argument in favour of the pyramid, Bartlett said.<\/p>\n<p>The FCA said it does not regulate crypto assets, and therefore did not take up the OneCoin case.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Bulgarian pyramid via this link.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"z0lx7m7Avu\">\n<p>The scam of the decade: how a doctor of legal sciences organized the OneCoin pyramid and disappeared with billions of euros<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201c\u0421\u043a\u0430\u043c \u0434\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0438\u044f: \u043a\u0430\u043a \u0434\u043e\u043a\u0442\u043e\u0440 \u044e\u0440\u0438\u0434\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u043d\u0430\u0443\u043a \u043e\u0440\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u043f\u0438\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0438\u0434\u0443 OneCoin \u0438 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u0431\u0435\u0437 \u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0441 \u043c\u0438\u043b\u043b\u0438\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u0435\u0432\u0440\u043e\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/skam-desyatiletiya-kak-doktor-yuridicheskih-nauk-organizovala-piramidu-onecoin-i-propala-bez-vesti-s-milliardami-evro\/embed#?secret=8AuJsAiUuM#?secret=z0lx7m7Avu\" data-secret=\"z0lx7m7Avu\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) removed OneCoin&#8217;s pyramid warning from its website under pressure from lawyers, according to the authors of the BBC Sounds podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1088],"class_list":["post-27099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-onecoin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27100,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27099\/revisions\/27100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}