Ep06- DealShaker – Companion Guide For BBC’s “The Missing Cryptoqueen” Podcast

Consider it or not, the DealShaker marketplace continues to be working. The commerce arm of the OneCoin empire, DealShaker offered a transparent and verifiable use case for OneCoin as a forex. The token was actual since you may use it to purchase issues in a particular e-commerce retailer.  Oh, these had been the times. The best factor about exploring OneCoin and Dr. Ruja’s story is that it displays how naive the crypto world really was only a few years in the past. In some ways, it nonetheless is. 

In “The Lacking Cryptoqueen’s” sixth episode, we journey to the previous. It’s titled “The Überflieger” referring to a “high-flying” individual. That’s how lecturers of the previous described Dr. Ruja, who was positively the star in all of her lessons and was revered and hated for it. What else can Jamie and Georgia study Ruja Ignatova by tracing her steps? Let’s discover out.

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About “The Lacking Cryptoqueen,” Episode Six – “The Überflieger”

Our blast from the previous episode begins in 2009, 5 years earlier than OneCoin and DealShaker. Bitcoin was getting into the scene and so was Dr. Ruja, who purchased a manufacturing facility in Germany. Jamie and Georgia go to the location in 2019 and interview the survivors of that story. They inform them that Ruja Ignatova received there, impressed all people, and made lots of guarantees that she didn’t hold. After that, she disappeared, successfully rug-pulling all people. Fascinating truth, each her father and her mom labored on the manufacturing facility. Which suggests Ruja Ignatova is a household girl. 

When Dr. Ruja disappeared, the manufacturing facility workplaces had been damaged into and lots of paperwork went lacking, alongside together with her. The manufacturing facility staff that the podcast interviewed all appear to suppose that this was staged and that Dr. Ruja took and destroyed some vital paperwork. “It’s precisely the identical story,” one in every of them says evaluating OneCoin and DealShaker to the manufacturing facility in query. When issues received robust, Ruja Ignatova bought the corporate and disappeared. The manufacturing facility stays closed to this present day.

Within the subsequent part’s second quote, you’ll sense the magnitude of that first case in opposition to Dr. Ruja. She paid the wonderful and stored it pushing. And, based on the manufacturing facility staff, she discovered that the subsequent time she was going to should disappear for actual. 

Quotes From “The Lacking Cryptoqueen,” EpisodeSix – “The Überflieger”

In what seems a diary entry, we study in regards to the younger Ruja Ignatova:

“Ruja was at all times pleasant to everybody. She was at all times nicely behaved and cheerful, and the lecturers had been deeply keen on her. She doesn’t drink and she or he would by no means degrade herself to consuming pizza. Her favourite lessons had been “p,” she was faultless, and every now and then she likes “ari.” Typically, she received on very nicely together with her colleagues. Cease. Possibly we should always stick with the reality. Okay, wonderful. Possibly I did benefit from tormenting some college students. I used to be at all times in search of the possibility to unfold new amusing tales about them.”

This quote summarizes the results of Ruja’s first fraud:

“This time, the regulation caught up with Dr. Ruja. In 2016, she was convicted in a German courtroom for a number of crimes. Intentional breach of responsibility within the occasion of insolvency, fraud, withholding an embezzlement of staff’ wages, and violation of accounting duties, She obtained a 14-month suspended sentence and an €18,000 wonderful. The native newspaper reported that Ruja reappeared to attend the ruling and confirmed no emotion when the judgment was handed down. She quietly slipped out and returned to Bulgaria, and carried on with OneCoin as if nothing had occurred.”

Extra About Dr. Ruja’s Previous

Later within the episode, Jamie and Georgia verify that Ruja actually received a PHD. “She’s good,” Georgia says. Then, Multi-Degree Advertising makes a second look. We study that in 2014, Ruja Ignatova tried to promote… await it… bitcoin utilizing MLM strategies. The producers introduce Sebastian Greenwood, a Multi-Degree Advertising skilled that appears to have created the Dr. Ruja character with Ignatova. She had the charisma, he had the approach. They simply wanted a product they might management.

Final however not least, we meet Duncan. He as soon as was an integral a part of the OneLife group and it’s the thoughts behind DealShaker. He says all the things in there’s garbage and challenges Jamie to search out 5 issues he needs and pays in OneCoin solely. Jamie goes by DealShaker and realizes the already shady characters that promote merchandise by the platform largely need Euros. Is DealShaker actually a OneCoin market?

On the finish of the episode, a non-public detective that the manufacturing employed apparently discovered a girl that could possibly be Ruja Ignatova in Athens. May or not it’s?

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Additional Materials: OneCoin Responds To The FCA

Roughly six years in the past, the Monetary Conduct Authority of the UK issued a warning in opposition to OneCoin. The corporate responded and NewsBTC reported the story:

“Within the assertion, OneCoin has known as itself a worldwide software program and know-how firm with workplaces in Bulgaria, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. The corporate has additionally described OneCoin has a digital forex sharing few options with current cryptocurrencies. These similarities are confined to the upkeep of all transaction data on a database.

The digital forex firm, within the final paragraph of the assertion, expresses its full cooperation,

“OneCoin is dedicated to following good enterprise practices and the related guidelines and rules within the international locations by which it operates. It would co-operate totally with the authorities in pursuit of this goal.”

Episode Credit

Presenter: Jamie Bartlett
Producer: Georgia Catt
Story marketing consultant: Chris Berube
Editor: Philip Sellars
Unique music and sound design: Phil Channell
Unique music and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London Bulgarian Choir

Earlier Companion Guides For BBC’s “The Lacking Cryptoqueen” Podcast:

Ep. 01 – https://www.newsbtc.com/information/bitcoin/ep01-dr-ruja-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/

Ep. 02 – https://www.newsbtc.com/information/bitcoin/ep02-btc-killer-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/

Ep. 03 – https://www.newsbtc.com/altcoin/ep03-onecoin-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/

Ep. 04 – https://www.newsbtc.com/scams-and-fraud/ep04-onelife-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/

Ep. 05 – https://www.newsbtc.com/scams-and-fraud/ep05-mlm-companion-guide-for-bbcs-the-missing-cryptoqueen-podcast/

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