Irina Dilkinska, OneCoin’s former Head of Authorized and Compliance, has been sentenced to 4 years in jail.
Regardless of her title, Dilkinska’s precise position inside OneCoin was to supervise its cash laundering operations.
In that capability, Dilkinska (proper) labored carefully with OneCoin co-founder Ruja Ignatova.
Dilkinska’s sentencing follows her arrest in Bulgaria in 2021 and extradition to the US in March 2023.
After she was offered with the US felony case in opposition to her, Dilkinska pled responsible to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit cash laundering in November 2023.
Dilkinska additionally consented to a $111 million financial judgment in December 2023.
Talking on Dilkinska’s sentencing, Damian Williams, the USA Legal professional for the Southern District of New York, said;
Irina Dilkinska’s involvement within the sprawling OneCoin pyramid scheme was a flagrant breach of conduct.
Reasonably than upholding the regulation and embracing her place because the Head of Authorized and Compliance, she facilitated and dedicated cash laundering, aiding within the exploitation of thousands and thousands of victims.
As Dilkinska realized at present, this Workplace will maintain accountable each perpetrator of the OneCoin scheme, regardless of the place they might cover.
Dilkinska is the fifth OneCoin insider sentenced to jail.
- Karl Sebastian Greenwood, OneCoin co-founder, was sentenced to twenty years in September 2023
- Gilbert Armenta, Ruja Ignatova’s lover and a part of OneCoin’s US cash laundering community, was sentenced to 5 years in February 2023
- Mark Scott, head of OneCoin’s US cash laundering community, was sentenced to 10 years in jail in January 2024
- Frank Ricketts, a part of OneCoin’s cash laundering community in Europe, was sentenced to 5 years in jail by a German court docket in January 2024
Ruja Ignatova herself stays at giant.
Ignatova is suspected of both being useless or hiding in Dubai or Russia.