OneCoin lawyer denied review of $400 million laundering case
Date: 2023-09-19 Author: Karina Ziganova Categories: IN WORLD
Mark Scott was found guilty of committing the crime of money laundering and bank fraud, the trial took place in the fall of 2019. The court agreed with the US Attorney's Office that the lawyer personally earned $50 million in the process.
According to Scott, he did not know that the project was fraudulent. As a result of the activities of Ignatov’s company OneCoin, the damage was estimated at $4 billion.
Rudzhi's brother, Konstantin Ignatov, acted as a witness for the prosecution at the trial against him. In March 2019, he was arrested at Los Angeles airport.
He later pleaded guilty to several charges. The government of the United States of America obtained a deferment of Ignatov's sentencing, saying that the interaction with him was not yet over.
Scott filed a motion for a new trial based on evidence of legal errors and the word of a perjured witness. Ignatov lied about some things, but prosecutors did not dispute this.
US District Judge Edgardo Ramos denied Scott's request. According to his statement, he is not convinced that “an innocent person could have been convicted.” The court's decision opens the possibility of sentencing.
Scott's lawyer announced they were planning to appeal.
Rudja Ignatova disappeared in 2017. In the spring of 2022, Europol included the OneCoin hacker on its list of most wanted criminals (at the time of writing, her card is not listed there). Later she was included in a similar list from the FBI. According to media reports, Ignatova was killed in November 2018 on a yacht in the Ionian Sea.
In December 2022, the main organizer and co-founder of a fraudulent organization called the Ponzi scheme, Sebastian Greenwood, pleaded guilty to money laundering fraud. By the end of September, Judge Ramos sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
In the United States, the prosecutor brought charges against the former head of the legal department and OneCoin company, Irina Dilkinska, who faces up to 40 years in prison.
