Regardless of a last-minute letter desperately trying to decrease his position inside OneCoin, Konstantin Ignatov has been denied pre-trial launch.
On the time of publication Ignatov’s case docket solely accommodates a June twenty eighth minute entry replace.
The entry states Ignatov’s “bond software (has been) denied”.
In a June twenty eighth letter response to the DOJ’s opposition submitting, Ignatov’s lawyer tried to downplay his position in OneCoin.
Mr. Ignatov’s place at OneCoin was as his sister Ruja’s lowly assistant till her disappearance on the finish of October, 2017.
Ruja … employed her brother on the very finish of June 2016 for probably the most menial of clerical duties.
Ruja cop(ied) the defendant on orders for clothes, jewellery, and home goods/ her being upset with not having tickets for Style Week, in addition to requests for the defendant to schedule conferences for her.
(In) one e mail from September 2017 … Ruja direct(s) a person to “ship [her] brother the bill,” for an order of purses.
In one more e mail, Ruja berates him for sustaining a disorganized submitting cupboard and for OneCoin’s buy of
low cost blue and purple pens.Our level in describing these emails is that Konstantin’s main OneCoin obligations of choosing up his sister’s earrings and arranging for ceramic flowers to be delivered to her dwelling in October of 2017 one way or the other morphed into his changing into a “excessive degree government” by December of 2017 and rising to “the highest management place in mid-2018.”
It’s merely unrealistic to consider that the defendant may and would take over his sister’s place because the chief of OneCoin, an alleged multi-billion greenback world fraud, with a whole lot of staff and transferring elements, seemingly in a single day.
But that’s precisely what occurred.
Right here’s Konstantin on stage at an organization occasion in Thailand, representing OneCoin’s “Sofia head workplace administration group”.
The occasion was held on December 2nd, 2017; barely a month and a half after Ruja went into hiding.
None of this was in fact spur of the second although. Ignatova started engaged on her exit-scam whereas she was nonetheless planning “trashy coin” with Sebastian Greenwood.
Internal Metropolis Press seem to have had a reporter reside on the court docket home as Ignatov’s launch movement was argued.
In a revealed June twenty eighth article, Internal Metropolis Press report;
New York Decide Edgardo Ramos questioned the supply of the bail cash that Ignatov was providing to place up, in addition to issued raised in regards to the propriety of “non-public prisons”.
The truth that Ignatov’s launch would seemingly be funded by OneCoin Ponzi victims, was introduced up yesterday by each the DOJ and myself.
Ignatov’s lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman famous that Bernie Madoff received bail, and that the federal government couldn’t present any contact between Ignavov and his sister Ruja, indisputedly increased up within the OneCoin scheme.
However Decide Ramos, after greater than an hour of argument, was not satisfied.
Sounds just like the DOJ argued their case properly and the Decide made the appropriate name.
At this stage I’m unsure if there’ll be an accompanying order with additional particulars or whether or not we’ll get a transcript of the listening to itself.
Both means the take-away from yesterday’s listening to is that Konstantin Ignatov will stay behind bars till he stands trial.
Now that Ignatov’s had a actuality examine, possibly he’ll begin squealing to authorities.
I imply, he was simply the man answerable for shopping for pens for OneCoin’s workplace proper? Why would he take the autumn for Ruja?
As all the time, keep tuned…
Replace seventh September 2019 – A standing convention was held on September sixth, at which a pretrial convention was scheduled for November seventh.