Irina Dilkinska was OneCoin’s Head of Authorized and Compliance. She labored intently with founder Ruja Ignatova and different OneCoin executives.
Following her March twentieth arrest in Bulgaria, Dilkinska was extradited to the US on March twenty first.
I don’t know when Dilkinska (proper) was initially indicted however a superseding indictment was filed towards her in September twenty fourth, 2020.
As per her indictment, Dilkinska has been charged with one depend every of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit cash laundering.
From in or about 2019 by in or about 2019 … Dilkinska helped to function a global fraud scheme involving the sale of a purported cryptocurrency generally known as “OneCoin” – by, amongst different issues, managing the scheme’s proceeds and evading legislation enforcement investigations into the scheme – as a part of which false statements and misrepresentations have been made to solicit people all through the world … to spend money on OneCoin, thereby inflicting people to ship interstate and worldwide wires representing OneCoin investments.
Dilkinska … willfully and knowingly conspired … to commit cash laundering.
It was a component and an object of the conspiracy that Irina Dilkinska … represented the proceeds of some type of illegal exercise, would and did conduct and try to conduct such monetary transactions which in reality concerned the proceeds of specified illegal exercise, to with, proceeds of the wire-fraud scheme.
Perception into the proof the DOJ has collected towards Dilkinska is offered in an accompanying March twenty first press-release.
DILKINSKA was the purported Head of Authorized and Compliance for OneCoin, however quite than making certain that OneCoin complied with the legislation, DILKINKSA assisted within the creation and administration of shell firms with a view to launder OneCoin proceeds and to carry property belonging to IGNATOVA.
For instance, in 2016 and 2017, DILKINSKA helped co-conspirator MARK SCOTT, a former fairness companion at a distinguished worldwide legislation agency, launder roughly $400 million in OneCoin proceeds by a sequence of pretend Cayman Islands funding funds operated by SCOTT.
Amongst different issues, DILKINSKA used an organization named B&N Seek the advice of EEOD, which was falsely described as providing “proprietary consulting providers, help and software program options” to its purchasers and as producing €200 million in 2015 by 2016, to disguise the switch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} as purported “investments” into SCOTT’s funds.
In actuality, B&N was a shell firm that didn’t generate professional earnings and was utilized by DILKINSKA to launder OneCoin proceeds.
In or round September 2018, DILKINSKA realized of SCOTT’s arrest in connection along with his laundering of OneCoin proceeds.
Shortly thereafter, DILKINSKA burned incriminating paperwork, despatched co-conspirator KONSTANTIN IGNATOV a textual content message with a hyperlink to a newspaper article in regards to the arrest, after which wrote a sequence of texts, together with, “See this!!!!!”; “One thing is occurring!!!!!”; and “If that is true I would like the mega attorneys for whom [co-conspirator FRANK SCHNEIDER] was speaking!!!”
Ruja Ignatova (proper) was indicted in 2017 and stays at massive as a wished fugitive.
Mark Scott was arrested in 2018. He was discovered responsible on all OneCoin associated prison prices in 2019. Scott’s sentencing stays pending.
Frank Schneider was arrested in France in 2021. His extradition to the US stays pending.
Following her extradition to the US, Dilkinska was introduced earlier than a Justice of the Peace Decide on March twenty first.
Dilkinska pled not responsible to the 2 counts in her indictment.
Following her preliminary look, Dilkinska was ordered detained on consent (i.e. she didn’t oppose being detained).
Wanting ahead, a Convention has been scheduled for April sixth.
