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Konstantin Now Out Of Civil Case As
Armenta Scam Exposed By Inner City Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 20 – As Inner City Press
covered the OneCoin trial in
October 2019, a number of
names of indicted
co-conspirators emerged on
which we followed up.
One of
them was Gilbert Armenta,
who recorded
Ruja Ignatova. Inner City
Press has repeatedly asked the
US Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York
for more information; it
continues even now to withhold
the exhibits it flashed on the
screen at trial. Inner City
Press had to file a FOIA
request; the Department of
Justice denies expedited
processing.
Then we reported
this: the US Attorney's Office
gave Armenta his own secret
docket number and kept it
sealed for three years, until
AFTER Inner City Press
exclusively reported on
Armenta's continuing dubious
business activities even while
a "cooperator." The case was
initially assigned to SDNY
Judge Willian H. Pauley III,
then moved to Judge Edgardo
Ramos - who to his credit has
now put an end to continued
extensions, and set a
sentencing date for October
21, 2020. The unsealed
indictment is now on Patreon here.
Then on
August 6, this - Konstantin
Ignatov has gotten himself
released from the civil suit,
full filing here.
On August
20, this was approved, thusly:
"STIPULATION OF VOLUNTARY
DISMISSAL: IT IS HEREBY
STIPULATED AND AGREED by and
between the Parties and/or
their respective counsel as
follows: Plaintiffs hereby
agree that the above-captioned
action is dismissed and
discontinued without prejudice
solely as to defendant
Konstantin Ignatov pursuant to
Rule 41(a) of the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure; This
Stipulation of Voluntary
Dismissal is not intended to,
and shall not have, any effect
on any claims asserted by any
other parties to this
litigation, or the defenses to
those claims; Konstantin
Ignatov will make himself
available to Plaintiffs'
counsel as expediently as
possible to be debriefed and
will truthfully and fully
provide information and
documentation to the best of
his abilities concerning the
subject matter of Plaintiffs'
claims, OneCoin, and the
remaining defendants in this
case; The United States
Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York
shall be notified in advance
by Plaintiffs' counsel of any
such debriefing and have the
right and ability to
participate and attend; If
called upon, Mr. Ignatov will
agree to testify on behalf of
Plaintiffs at a trial or other
court proceeding without
invoking his Fifth Amendment
protections as they apply to
facts already acknowledged in
United States v. Scott, et
al., 17 CR 630 (SDNY) (ER)
upon the conclusion of his
cooperation with the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York,
or upon their approval,
whichever occurs first; The
Parties agree to toll any
applicable statute of
limitations and/or statute of
repose during the pendency of
this arrangement; If
Konstantin Ignatov makes good
faith efforts to provide
complete and accurate
information and documentation
to the best of his abilities
and otherwise complies with
the terms set forth herein,
this stipulation of
discontinuance shall be
construed as a dismissal with
prejudice in full satisfaction
of Plaintiffs' claims, which
are the subject of the Amended
Complaint, upon judgment,
settlement, or other
resolution of the
above-captioned action; This
Stipulation and any Order
entered thereon shall have no
precedential value or effect
whatsoever and shall not be
admissible in any other action
or proceeding as evidence or
for any other purpose except
in an action or proceeding to
enforce this Stipulation; So
Ordered. (Konstantin Ignatov
terminated.) (Signed by Judge
Valerie E. Caproni on
8/20/20)."
The
willingness to hide Armenta
and the case against him, as
he continued dubious business
presumably for others, has
Inner City Press wondering
about these individuals it is
researching through links
to Ruja Ignatova's
RavenR:
Thomas
Christodoulou
Maria Serbina
Joanna Hilary Alinson
Simon John Longworth
Anna Marie Longworth
Robert Henry Rothenberg
Gary Michael Gilford
Nikolaou Nikolaos
Louca Theocharis
Mary Skoullou
Giannakis Tsiannaros
Svitlana Kolesnyk
Cyprus Development Bank
Vladislav Velkov
We'll have more
on this. Here are the
Armenta business moves Inner
City Press exclusively
reported on December 1, 2019,
here:
ESOL B.V.
LLC was incorporated on July
8, 2019; the manager is
Gilbert Armenta and the agent
is Giselle Valentin, both of
500 E. Broward Boulevard, PH
2, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394.
See here.
And here.
Armenta's Tblisi,
Georgia-based money laundering
bank JSC Capital Bank had as
its parent a company of
exactly this name. See KPMG
review of Georgia banking
sector here.
More on Armenta's ongoing
companies on Patreon here.
Inner City
Press asked, on December 1,
2019: Is the US Attorney's
Office allowing its cooperator
to keep on money laundering?
Or looking the other way while
whatever cooperation agreement
exists is openly violated?
Perhaps these and other
quesitons will be answered in
connection with Armenta's
sentencing in the too long
seal case against him. Watch
this site.
More on Patreon here.
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