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OneCoin Trial US Puts On IBERIABANK and
Locke Lord Witnesses While Objecting To
Mark Scott Exhibits
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon,
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 12 – 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
for the Southern District of
New York.
On Veterans Day,
the prosecutors wrote to SDNY
Judge Edgardo Ramos in favor
of the admissibility as
evidence of e-mails and
letters concerning OneCoin's
attempts to launder its money.
A sample TD Bank letter to
Gilbert Armenta is here.
There was also a letter from
Sabadell Bank, now part of
IBERIABANK which seeks to be
acquired by First Horizon of
Tennessee.
On November
12 the government put on as
witnesses representatives of
Morgan Stanley and of Sabadell
/ IBERIABANK, the latter of
which described informing Mark
Scott's then associate Gilbert
Armenta that his accounts
would be closed due to
anti-money laundering risks. Thread
here.
The day's
final witness was the Deputy
COO of the Locke Lord law firm
where Mark Scott worked before
setting out on his own into
what the government said was
his money laundering scheme.
The government has objected in
advance to e-mails Scott's
lawyers have said they will
seek to use to cross examine
the Locke Lord witness. But
that fight has been put off
until November 13. More on
Patreon here.
Inner City
Press has asked the US
Attorney's Office when it was
that Konstantin Ignatov pled
guilty, since he gave no
indication of such a plea in a
September 6 status conference
that Inner City Press covered,
and has asked if it was before
Judge Ramos, and if it was
sealed.
The
government's next witness was
the anti money laundering
expert Donald Semesky. Inner
City Press will continue to
cover the trial. November 7
thread here.
More on Patreon here.
On
November 6 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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