On September twenty fourth the courtroom permitted public submitting of two redacted communications.
These communications revealed particulars of Konstantin Ignatov’s testimony perjury, dedicated at Mark Scott’s cash laundering trial.
In his November 2019 witness testimony, Konstantin (proper) claimed when he
landed within the US in late February 2019, he was stopped by border patrol.
Border patrol confiscated Ignatov’s cellphone and laptop computer. The laptop computer was returned however they saved the cellphone.
Konstantin held on the laptop computer until he received to Las Vegas.
Konstantin went on to allege that when he
was in Las Vegas, (he) put (the laptop computer) right into a paper trash bag with different trash gadgets, and (he) took it to a trash bin on a busy place within the Las Vegas Strip, and (he) threw it into the trash bin there.
Seems what he really did was
supplied the laptop computer (to Duncan Arthur) – in order that it might be returned to OneCoin.
(Duncan Arthur) did simply that, flying the pc out of the U.S. – past the attain of Authorities authorities – and returning it to Veska Ignatova, the mom of Konstantin and Ruja, on the OneCoin places of work in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Within the public submitting, Mark Scott’s letter movement for a brand new trial, Duncan’s title is redacted.
We all know Ignatov handed him the laptop computer although, owing to Arthur already having disclosed he was travelling with Ignatov on the time.
As above, Scott’s authorized staff additionally didn’t redact Arthur’s title in a single paragraph of their letter movement.
Upon realizing that Konstantin testified falsely, (Arthur) – who voluntarily cooperated with the Authorities on this investigation – contacted an investigator.
Scott’s legal professional claims the DOJ “didn’t disclose this occasion of perjury” to them. The legal professional alleges the DOJ knew of the perjury as early as June twenty ninth, 2021.
Scott’s legal professional claims he realized of the perjury straight from Arthur in July.
Why Arthur did what he did is redacted.
Scott’s legal professional goes on to argue;
Konstantin’s deceit upon this Courtroom undermines the credibility of the Authorities’s star witness in opposition to Mr. Scott.
His testimony was completely central to the Authorities’s proof that Mr. Scott engaged in any form of criminal activity.
The “curiosity of justice” requires the courtroom to vacate Mr. Scott’s conviction and grant a brand new trial.
Does Konstantin mendacity about what he did with a laptop computer change the proof introduced in opposition to Mark Scott? No.
It additionally has no bearing on Scott (proper) laundering $400 million in stolen OneCoin investor funds. Or any of the proof introduced in opposition to Scott by the DOJ.
Scott’s legal professional argues that Konstantin mendacity in regards to the laptop computer “casts grave doubt on the equity of the trial”.
In assist of this they put forth one other alleged occasion of perjury, with respect to when Konstantin met Scott.
Konstantin testified falsely about the one event when he ever met Mr. Scott.
Konstantin testified to a gathering on July 20, 2016 during which Mr. Scott met Ruja Ignatova and – allegedly – Irina Dilkinska at OneCoin’s Sofia, Bulgaria workplace.
Provided that Irina Dilkinska was allegedly answerable for supervising the laundering of OneCoin funds, her supposed presence at this assembly was a key inculpatory element.
In dramatic trend, Konstantin recounted how Ruja supposedly instructed him to name Irina Dilkinska into this assembly and “to guarantee that everyone on this ground leaves and goes dwelling in order that Irina, Mark, and Ruja are alone.”
Konstantin testified that the next week, Dilkinska advised him that “she needed to keep [at the meeting] a very long time … till Mark Scott understood all the pieces that must be executed or he has to do.”
This was merely a lie. Emails from the Authorities’s manufacturing supplied clear and compelling proof that Dilkinska was not even in Bulgaria on the time of the assembly in query.
This declare is predicated on e mail communications, which had been rejected as inadmissible rumour at Scott’s trial.
When the DOJ questioned Konstantin about his perjury in August 2021, he acknowledged he
didn’t assume america Authorities would consider what occurred to the laptop computer, which is why he lied.
Konstantin Ignatov doesn’t have an actual reminiscence of why he lied in regards to the laptop computer.
Konstantin Ignatov didn’t right (the report) as a result of he didn’t need america Authorities to assume he was a liar.
In mild of Ignatov’s perjury, Scott’s legal professional contends data on Ignatov’s laptop computer “might have contained further proof establishing that his testimony about Dilkinska’s presence on the assembly was additionally faux”.
Whether or not Konstantin’s laptop computer lie overturns his conviction on a authorized foundation stays to be seen.
A call on Scott’s retrial movement stays pending.