Subject: Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, born 1980-05-30, Ruse, Bulgaria. McKinsey consultancy 2007-2010. PhD Konstanz, jurisprudence. Founded OneCoin Ltd. 2014, Sofia. Operational vehicle: BigCoin Vault payment processor; backstopping: 24+ shell companies across Dubai, BVI, Belize, Singapore.

Verified case totals (2014-2017): aggregate inflow $4.5B from 3,000,000 unique investor IDs across 175 countries. Largest single-jurisdiction concentration: Germany. Highest-conversion cohort: pre-existing MLM networks. Mining 'rigs' sold by OneCoin were not connected to any blockchain — token issuance occurred via SQL INSERT statements on a private database hosted in Sofia.

Working theories per active casefile: (T1) targeted homicide and disposal at sea, Ionian, late 2018, attributed to Bulgarian organized crime to silence implication of senior figures; (T2) phantom-life relocation, Republic of South Africa, with biometric reconstruction surgery (Cape Town clinic candidate identified, never verified); (T3) protected witness arrangement under unidentified national service. None confirmed; all three remain officially open.

Bounty status: USD 5,000,000 (US State Department, June 2022). Indictment count: SDNY 18-CR-722 (wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering), unsealed 2019. Ignatova added to FBI Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives, 2022-06-30 — only woman currently on the list. Casefile remains open.