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OneCoin Trial Konstantin Ignatov Testifies
For US About Sister Ruja and Mark Scott
Sophia Visit
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon,
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 5 – After OneCoin's
Konstantin Ignatov got a stay
of the civil case against him,
then his criminal case was
said to have been kicked down
the road for at least another
two months.
It was a
productive two months, at
least for the U.S. Attorney's
Office.
On November 5 in
the case against accused
OneCoin money launderer Mark
Scott Konstantin Ignatov took
the witness stand, in prison
blues with his neck and arm
tattoos, as a cooperating
witness.
He described
OneCoin as a multi level
marketing operation and
identified the Sophia
headquarters where Mark Scott
visited.
Earlier in the day, the US
prosecutors played videos of
Ruja Ignatova telling
audiences she was doubling
their OneCoins - "one time
only!" -- and saying her
company was "the BitCoin
killer... I kind of like
that." Inner City Press has
asked the US Attorney's Office
to provide it access to the
exhibits as was done in the
recent trials involving
Honduras and rapper 6ix9ine
(who sat in the same witness
stand as Konstantin Ignatov,
both cooperating witnesses in
prison blues.)
The
day ended with Assistant US
Attorney Nicholas Folly still
questioning Konstantin
Ignatov. But next will come
the cross examination by
Scott's lawyers. Watch this
site.
Inner City Press
is live-tweeting it, November
4 thread here.
Patreon here.
November 5 thread here.
And Nov 5 Patreon here.
On
November 4 before jury
selection, in oral arguments
Scott's lawyers asked Judge
Ramos to not allow into
evidence information and chats
found on a Samsung Galaxy
smart phone for which Mark
Scott paid but was used by his
wife, with a Russian keyboard.
Judge Ramos declined to
suppress it.
It also
emerged that still-missing
Ruja Ignatova rented space
underneath cooperator Gilbert
Armenta to listen in on him.
More on that and on jury
selection (which included
questions on multi level
marketing) is on Patreon, here.
On Monday,
October 28 in a two hour
pre-trial conference covered
by Inner City Press, Judge
Ramos said that the government
can show photos of Scott with
a yacht and cars that he
purchased.
The
government said the trial will
take two to three weeks.
The case
is US v.
Scott / Ignatov,
17-cr-630
(Ramos).
More
on Patreon, here.
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