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OneCoin Trial Konstantin Ignatov Says Ruja
Learned of FBI Probe and Fled Citing
Support From Rich Russian
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon,
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 6 – After OneCoin's
Konstantin Ignatov got a stay
of the civil case against him,
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 6 in
the case against accused
OneCoin money launderer Mark
Scott Konstantin Ignatov for
the secon day took the witness
stand, in prison blues with
his neck and arm tattoos, as a
cooperating witness.
Now he
described his sister Ruja's
disappearance after she
learned that Gilbert Armenta,
whom Konstantin Ignatov
described as her boyfriend and
a money launderer, was
cooperating with the FBI.
It emerged
that Ruja bought an apartment
under Armenta's in order to
see if he was, as he'd told
her, preparing to leave his
wife to be with her. Instead
she heard of his negotiations
with the FBI, and fled.
Konstantin
Ignatov testified that the
bodyguards to took Ruja on her
final public trip told him she
was met by "Russian guys," and
that Ruja had told him that in
Russia she knew a rich and
powerful person. More on Patreon,
here.
November 6
came to an end in the trial
with Scott's lawyer Arlo
Devlin-Brown cross examining
Konstantin in detail about his
one and only in person meeting
with defendant Mark Scott,
when he visited OneCoin's
headquarters in Sophia,
Bulgaria. Inner City Press
will have more on this as the
trial continues on November 7.
Back 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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