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Amazing that it took this long to find and arrest him.

Ruja Ignatova is also suspected of hiding in Montenegro, she is behind the OneCoin ponzi scheme and has successfully been on the run for 5 years now.

It appears that Do Kwon did a very rookie mistake by believing he could take a plane at the airport like every one else.

How is that a rookie mistake, it’s total idiocy

If I pulled off a billion dollar scam, I’d only fly private but in music equipment boxes

I bet someone sold him a bridge(we brought off customs and you will sail through) for a big sum. Of course he cannot verify till he got there to see himself.

saw this from a couple of days ago - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...

Was she hiding too or were they just waiting, maybe hoping it could provide more information?

tl;dr they arrested Ignatova's head of compliance for OneCoin

I hope this woman has knowledge of the whereabouts of Ignatova. Disgusting that you can get away with running a billion dollar ponzi, and get away with the loot too.

I mean to be fair, if you’re going to do a Ponzi, you better make sure it pays you at least a billion dollars because you are definitely going to (a) be unable to access some probably very large portion of it, and (b) have to go completely off the grid. If your Ponzi pays out like 100k, you’re going straight to jail.

Charge is not arrest

From the DOJ link above, first paragraph:

DILKINSKA was extradited from Bulgaria yesterday and will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn later today.

<https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...>

She is in US custody.

The head of compliance of OneCoin was extradited. Not Ruja Ignatova herself.

Doh! I'd glossed over that.

Thanks, and I stand corrected.

But extradited is arrest.

Different individual, as I've been corrected earlier.

The grapevine is of the opinion that Ignatova has spent the last few years on the bottom of the sea, so that'd definitely be a plausible explanation as to how she's not been captured yet.

Well the podgorica airport is notoriously shitty.

I thought she fell out a window?

Not really. If someone lays low and uses new IDs they can hide for a very long time, decades sometimes. A good rule of thumb is to avoid areas where there are police/checkpoints, like airports.

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