April 18, 2024

US court will consider the case of a financier suspected of money laundering pyramid OneCoin

A New York court has once again postponed the hearing of Fenero Funds manager David Pike, who is accused ofThe deliberate misrepresentation of FBI, US Internal Revenue Service, and prosecutors in the OneCoin pyramid, according to Finance Feeds.

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The delay is valid until January 12, 2020. So far, the prosecutor’s office and the defense side are discussing a list of allegations that have eventually been brought forward to Pike, who is suspected of assisting in laundering OneCoin money worth € 450 million through private funds.

Pike insists that he did not know about the origin of the money, but the investigation believes otherwise.

Recall the alleged accomplice soldering lawyerMark Scott was found guilty of money laundering and bank fraud in November. He also denied that he knew about the pyramid and the illegal origin of the funds. Now he faces up to 50 years in prison.

Co-founder of OneCoin Konstantin Ignatov, brotherthe founder of Rugia Ignatova, was arrested this year and subsequently made a deal with the investigation, pleading guilty to a number of charges. He faces up to 90 years in prison in the United States.

Another pyramid leader, Sebastian Greenwood, wasextradited from Thailand to the United States back in 2018, but after that his case no longer surfaced on a public plane. Most likely, he agreed to testify against OneCoin's true patrons in exchange for participating in the Federal Witness Protection Program.

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Rugi Ignatova in the United States indicted in absentia, her whereabouts remain unknown.