Dr Ruja Ignatova (aka the ‘Crypto Queen’) and her company OneCoin set out to revolutionise the world of cryptocurrencies. But then she vanished in 2017, after pocketing billions of dollars from victims across the world.
So where did she go? Could she be in Dubai? Did she get a facelift and move to Brazil? Or could she be hiding in plain sight?
Technology writer and journalist Jamie Barlett investigates this crazy story of what could be the world’s wildest crypto scam.
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