{"id":75975,"date":"2023-03-22T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75975"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:43:41","slug":"head-of-onecoin-pyramid-compliance-faces-up-to-40-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/head-of-onecoin-pyramid-compliance-faces-up-to-40-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of OneCoin pyramid compliance faces up to 40 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. federal prosecutors charged Irina Dilkinskaya, the former head of the legal department and compliance at the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid, with fraud and conspiracy to launder money.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">Bulgarian woman charged for role in multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency pyramid scheme \u201cOneCoin\u201d and extradited from Bulgaria to the United States<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/XsY0rYJWeF\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/XsY0rYJWeF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SDNYnews\/status\/1638209911623393280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">March 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the defendant, through shell companies, helped launder more than $400 million in OneCoin proceeds. Additionally, after the firm&#8217;s attorney Mark Scott was arrested, she destroyed compromising evidence.<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, Dilkinskaya was extradited from Bulgaria to the United States. Taken together, the charges carry a potential sentence of up to 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>OneCoin was founded in 2014 by Ruja Ignatova together with Sebastian Greenwood. The project was initially pitched as a high-yield cryptocurrency, with investors earning profits not only from the asset&#8217;s appreciation but also from recruiting new participants.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found Mark Scott guilty of laundering nearly $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2019, Konstantin Ignatov, Ruja Ignatova&#8217;s brother, was detained at Los Angeles International Airport. He later pleaded guilty to several counts.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, journalists reported <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/journalists-report-the-murder-of-onecoin-founder-ruja-ignatova\">the murder of Ignatova<\/a>, who was on Europol&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/onecoin-founder-ruja-ignatova-added-to-europols-most-wanted-list\">\u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0430<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/fbi-puts-onecoin-founder-ruja-ignatova-on-the-ten-most-wanted-fugitives-list\"> \u0424\u0411\u0420<\/a>&#8216;s most-wanted lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. authorities charged Irina Dilkinskaya, the former head of the compliance department at the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid, with fraud and conspiracy to launder money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1464,1088,1163,26],"class_list":["post-75975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-accusations","tag-onecoin","tag-ponzi-schemes","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"32","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75975","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=75975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75977,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75975\/revisions\/75977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}