Terrifying tale of OneCoin’s “Cryptoqueen” is subject of BBC podcast

A gripping new BBC podcast series, The Missing Cryptoqueen, tells the story of Bulgarian tech entrepreneur, Dr. Ruja Ignatova, who vanished in 2017, just as her shady cryptocurrency OneCoin was raking in billions of dollars from investors all over the world. 

Up to $5 billion is alleged to have been lost. There are ongoing criminal proceedings in the U.S., OneCoin’s operations were shut down in Italy, and people associated with it have been arrested and charged in China and India.

But despite the disappearance of its founder–whose whereabouts is still unknown–OneCoin is disputing allegations that it’s a scam. And people are still buying its pricey investment “packages,” according to reports last month. 

Meanwhile, since the series aired last month, at least one interviewee, who invested in the scheme, has complained of anonymous death threats and taunts over her criticism of OneCoin. A spokesperson for the BBC hinted that it’s been threatened too, adding that the…