PANews reported on August 8 that according to Decrypt, the High Court in London, UK, has issued a global asset freeze order to freeze the assets of suspected OneCoin (OneCoin) scammers, including the assets of the notorious "Crypto Queen" Ruja Ignatova. The case was initiated by more than 400 victims of the OneCoin Ponzi scheme, resulting in the freezing of the assets of Ignatova and OneCoin co-founders Sebastian Greenwood, Christopher Hamilton and Robert MacDonald. Hamilton and MacDonald allegedly helped the organizers of the OneCoin scam launder money. The funds of the four influencers who promoted the scheme were also frozen, as well as the funds of the business entities that Ingatova allegedly used to launder money and purchase assets.
Previously, OneCoin was launched in 2014, and Ignatova defrauded investors around the world through a $4 billion Ponzi scheme until the scam collapsed in 2017 and she disappeared. She was last seen in 2017 when she was on a plane fleeing Bulgaria to Athens, Greece, and was included in the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
