The founder of the pyramid OneCoin will become the main character of the British series

Popular BBC Sounds podcast «The Lost Crypto Queen» about the founder of the cryptocurrency pyramid OneCoinRugi Ignatova filmed. The rights to the film adaptation were received by New Regency Television International, reports Deadline.

The BBC podcast was very popular in the UK. Over the four months of last year, it was downloaded 3.5 million times, which allowed it to take first place in the UK iTunes charts.

To develop the script, New Regency invited the co-authors of the podcast. It is planned that the story of Ignatova will become a multi-part drama.

«The screenwriters told a story about a darkside of technological change and how people can be deceived on such a massive scale. "This is a cautionary tale of corruption, danger and deceit combined with unexpected twists, mysteries and the global scope of the scandal," —New Regency said.

Let us remind you that British law enforcement began an investigation into OneCoin back in 2016.

During the BBC investigation, the damage from the pyramid's activities was estimated at 15.4 billion euros.

The full story of how the Doctor of Law organized the OneCoin pyramid and went missing with billions of euros can be found in the exclusive ForkLog.