Bent lawyer Mark Scott faces 50 years jail for laundering millions from OneCoin cryptocu…

I was standing spitting distance from Ruja Ignatova, a place where thousands of ripped-off investors would now love to be in – and I suspect many would do more than just spit.

The scene was the crammed foyer of a London hotel where so-called Bulgarian crypto queen Ruja was hosting a rally to recruit more investors to her currency OneCoin.

Acolytes like to make a little sign with their hands to resemble a coin to show support for the scheme and so I pulled out my mobile and Ruja happily obliged.

Inside the hall, potential new recruits were bombarded with speakers yelling slogans such as “I am here to make you filthy rich” and promises of how a £28,000 investment would turn into £1.2million.

That was in February 2016.

Now Ruja is one the run and OneCoin has been exposed as a $4billion global ponzi scheme.

This month her brother Konstantin Ignatov, 33, pleaded guilty in America to fraud and money laundering offences.

He is likely to get away with a penalty…