Onecoin Cryptoqueen’s Ex-boyfriend Gets 5 Years in Prison
A former boyfriend of Ruja Ignatova, the mastermind of the Ponzi scheme Onecoin, has received five years in prison. The sentence is for the laundering of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of proceeds from the notorious crypto scam which defrauded investors around the world. Ruja’s Former Boyfriend Sentenced for Money Laundering Linked to Onecoin Gilbert Armenta, the ex- boyfriend of crypto pyramid Onecoin’s founder Ruja Ignatova, has been sentenced in the United States, Bloomberg Law reported. According to court documents, he helped launder $300 million of proceeds from one of the largest Ponzi schemes in crypto history. In 2018, Armenta, now 59, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud, money laundering and extortion, all in connection with Onecoin. He cooperated with prosecutors in the investigation into the scam for about two years but later committed other crimes, violating the agreement. Founded in 2014, Onecoin operated as a global multi-level-marketing networ...