Lale: Was she linked to large networks, orgodized cryne, or acting by herself? This is onl question for an audience member. It's hard to stand these things up, as we say journalistically. My best bet though is that it actually started off that she was acting alone. Her and sebastian greenwood and another man called juha pariala,. another top promoter, got together and designed this. Thought, this is going to be a really clever little thing. It probably won't get that big, but, well, make a decent amount of money. And then suddenly she's in possession of hundreds of millions of las. On that chast
Dr Ruja Ignatova, an Oxford-educated, self-styled cryptocurrency guru, promised her followers a financial revolution through her project: OneCoin. Then, in October 2017, she disappeared. But not before she had duped investors around the world, some of whom are the poorest people in society, into buying up more than $4 billion-worth of OneCoin. Ignatova has been in hiding ever since and was recently added to Europol's most wanted list. Jamie Bartlett is an expert on the politics of the internet and has put the story into a podcast series and now a new book, too: The Missing Cryptoqueen. To talk about it all, he joins our host Carl Miller, Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, and Layla Begum, a business development executive who was one of the many victims of the OneCoin scandal.
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