The transcript of Mark Scott’s October twenty eighth pre-trial convention listening to has been made public.
Numerous the eighty-three web page transcript is procedural, nevertheless there have been some fascinating tidbits in it.
Notice that not all the things under is new info. What’s new is grouped with a few of what we already knew, which hopefully nonetheless makes for an fascinating learn.
Irina Dilkinska laundered $200 million via Mark Scott
Irina Dilkinska (proper) transferred $200 million into funding funds arrange by Scott.
When brokers questioned Scott about Dilinska, who he was in common contact with through SMS, he acknowledged he couldn’t bear in mind who she was.
Ruja Ignatova was a shopper of Locke Lord
Previous to quitting in favor of the way more profitable enterprise of laundering funds for OneCoin, Mark Scott was an legal professional at Locke Lord.
The court docket transcript reveals that along with being a shopper of Scott’s, Ruja Ignatova was additionally a shopper of Locke Lord.
Scott disclosed that Ignatova got here in via Locke Lord’s London workplace.
Primarily based on Scott’s interview, it seems Locke Lord assisted Ignatova in managing her OneCoin actual property empire.
Locke Lord is a global regulation agency with over 600 attorneys on workers (Wikipedia), not less than one in every of which is outwardly a “an knowledgeable in cryptocurrency”.
Once more, primarily based on Scott’s interview, the knowledgeable is believed to be Peter Courtneidge.
Courtneidge is once more referenced within the transcript. Notably there’s no publicly out there info linking a Peter Courtneidge to Locke Lord.
Confusingly, later within the transcript Scott’s legal professional refers to Peter Courtneidge as “Robert Courtneidge”.
Mr. Courtneidge did evaluation for her associated information cryptocurrency work as a result of he was a funds knowledgeable, and that gave Mr. Scott, frankly, some consolation.
Actually, after that, the agency did an entire bunch of different work for Ruja Ignatova and OneCoin going past the introduction, even after Mr. Scott had left the agency.
Particular particulars usually are not mentioned, nevertheless it seems Ignatova was launched to Locke Lord by Gilbert Armenta.
Frank Schneider thought Mark Scott is likely to be a mole
Communications between OneCoin insiders as they tried to get well cash laundered via Phoenix Funds, reveal Frank Schneider was suspicious of Mark Scott.
Schneider had been tipped off a couple of January 2017 OneCoin presentation US authorities had given.
Particulars haven’t been made public, aside from it was a “non-public regulation enforcement to regulation enforcement” presentation.
We suspect it was a presentation given to EU authorities. Probably Bulgaria and/or Germany and/or the UK.
In any occasion, in the course of the presentation US authorities recognized Ruja Ignatova, Sebastian Greenwood “and others” as OneCoin co-conspirators.
There was no point out of Mark Scott, prompting Schneider, upon being briefed on the presentation, to think about Scott may need been “a high-placed U.S. informant”.
Schneider warned Irina Dilkinska and Konstantin Ignatov to
be very, very cautious with something that you’re doing proper now with Mark Scott as a result of he may very well be a extremely positioned U.S. informant.
Aside from stating the assumption Schneider has “entry to confidential regulation enforcement info”, the DOJ didn’t go into who Schneider’s contacts had been/are.
Ruja Ignatova and Irina Dilkinska informed Konstantin Ignatov that Mark Scott was a cash launderer
In his movement for an acquittal or a retrial, Mark Scott claimed he was blind to fraud inside OneCoin.
In actuality Scott’s function inside the Ponzi scheme was crystal clear.
Someday earlier than mid 2018, Ruja Ignatova and Irina Dilkinska informed Konstantin Ignatov that,
(Mark) Scott was a cash launderer … introduced into the OneCoin scheme by (Gilbert) Armenta.
Mark Scott’s proposed authorized ethics knowledgeable didn’t need to be named
Previous to trial Mark Scott’s authorized workforce sought to have a authorized ethics knowledgeable communicate on his behalf.
Conventionally an knowledgeable witness is called and what they intend talk about is disclosed, in order that the court docket and opposition can consider appropriateness.
On this case nevertheless, Mark Scott’s legal professional knowledgeable the court docket
the person doesn’t want that we title him until we’ve got some indication as as to whether this is able to be permitted or not.
The imprecise testimony Scott’s legal professional put forth was the argument that withholding details about shoppers from banks, Ruja Ignatova on this case, was not a lot about cash laundering because it was defending a shopper’s curiosity.
Not surprisingly, the court docket declined “the unknown testimony of the unknown knowledgeable”.
Most likely for the very best. Making an attempt to defend mendacity to banks is rarely a very good look.
Irina Dilkinska believed she was subsequent after Mark Scott
Following Mark Scott’s arrest, Irina Dilkinska (proper) informed Konstantin Ignatov she believed
she was going to be the following one to get arrested, and he or she didn’t know what to do.
One suggestion put forth by Dilkinska was to destroy information tied to Mark Scott.
The cooperating witness Dilkinska spoke to was Ruja Ignatova’s brother, Konstantin Ignatov.
Following Scott’s arrest in September 2018, Konstantin was subsequent to be arrested in March 2019.
The DOJ has recognized Irnina Dilkinska as a OneCoin “key conspirator”. She stays at massive.