As a part of their BBC Sounds podcast assortment, presenter Jamie Bartlett is exploring the disappearance of OneCoin’s Ruja Ignatova.
I wished to pay attention to some episodes of the eight-part sequence earlier than I printed an article. And having now achieved so, I can wholly advocate “The Lacking Crypto Queen” as value a pay attention.
As I write this two episodes can be found, the primary of which is a common introduction to OneCoin and Ruja Ignatova’s cult of character inside it.
The second episode begins to dig deeper, stepping into OneCoin not having a blockchain and the problems that raises.
One scene, wherein Bartlett and producer Georgia Catt monitor down Ignatova’s luxurious yacht in Bulgaria, stood out as a spotlight.
As revealed within the second episode, OneCoin company did difficulty some canned responses to Bartlett’s enquiries in regards to the blockchain.
In a nutshell OneCoin tried to equate a SQL database to an precise blockchain – regardless of the plain variations.
Elsewhere on the web OneCoin executives appear fairly upset in regards to the podcast.
Victoria Nicole, who our readers imagine is OneCoin head of selling Lyubomira Bozhinova, derided the podcast as missing info and failing to supply “the opposite aspect of the controversy”.
As beforehand talked about, Bartlett does embody OneCoin’s responses to his queries within the podcast. So both Nicole/Bozhinova has handed judgement with out truly listening to it, or she’s being disingenuous.
Hardly stunning both manner.
Primarily based on the interviews Bartlett carried out and his touring to Bulgaria, it appears no one from OneCoin company wished to go on the document.
Let’s face it, that’s actually what Nicole/Bozhinova is attempting to detract consideration from.
Whereas none of Bartlett’s analysis to date into OneCoin is new to me having been reporting on OneCoin since 2014, I’ve been advised the subsequent 5 episodes transcend public data.
Wanting ahead to it.
The primary two episodes of The Lacking Crypto Queen are accessible for listening. I imagine episodes three to eight shall be launched weekly.
I’ll replace beneath with any attention-grabbing tidbits from the episodes. Apart from common highlights although, I don’t intend to offer away detailed spoilers.
In line with the BBC’s web site, The Lacking Crypto Queen shall be accessible on-line until September 2020.