I think that she would still be living the life stile that she had been accustomed to. We've had too many quite credible sightings to make it seem she's dead somewhere. She will know now there's people really seriously looking for her. The german authorities have said they've received 30 tipofs of varying quality. They say 30 tippofs, and hopefully one coin is still being promoted out there. Any possible investor, you send them that emal and say, really, there she is on euro poles. Most wantind you're really sure you want to invest in this currency.
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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