Ruja Ignatova: A Closer Look
“In this Bulgarian name, the patronymic is Plamenova and the family name is Ignatova.” Ruja Plamenova Ignatova (Bulgarian: Ружа Пламенова Игнатова, romanized: Ruža Plamenova Ignatova, occasionally transliterated as “Ruga Ignatova”; born 30 May 1980) is a Bulgarian-born German entrepreneur who in 2019 was convicted of fraud. She is best known as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times has described as “one of the biggest…