Irina Dilkinska was extradited from Bulgaria to the U.S. The former head of legal and compliance at OneCoin, a supposed cryptocurrency company, actually bilked customers out of more than $4 billion in a “fraudulent pyramid scheme,” prosecutors allege.
questionable assets, there are people foolish enough to commit black-and-white crimes. On Monday, another alleged criminal of that nature was extradited from Bulgaria to the United States, where she faces decades of possible prison time., a supposed cryptocurrency company that actually bilked customers out of more than $4 billion in a “fraudulent pyramid scheme,” prosecutors allege.announcing the charges, Damian Williams, U.S.
That outburst proved prescient. On Tuesday, Dilkinska was scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn. The company scaled rapidly by paying customers commissions in exchange “for recruiting others to purchase cryptocurrency packages,” the charges against Dilkinska claim. OneCoin previously stated that more than 3 million people bought into the bogus assets in more than 100 countries.
Dilkinska’s role, prosecutors said, involved working with Scott—a “former equity partner at a prominent international law firm”—to launder roughly $400 million using shell companies. Prosecutors eventually caught whiff of the massive fraud, however, and the operation unraveled.
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