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He got 20 years in prison for a $4 billion cryptocurrency scam. His alleged accomplice is still on the run



CNN
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Ruta Ignatova, the infamous “Cryptoqueen,” remains a fugitive after getting on a plane and vanishing six years ago. But her former partner is going to prison.

A New York federal judge has sentenced Karl Sebastian Greenwood to 20 years behind bars for his role in a global cryptocurrency scheme that scammed investors out of more than $4 billion.

Ignatova boarded a flight in Sofia, Bulgaria, in October 2017 and vanished, leaving Greenwood and her other business partners to take the fall for their failed company. She’s been on the run since and remains the only woman on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list.

More than 3 million people invested in the pair’s fraudulent cryptocurrency, OneCoin, making it one of the largest global fraud schemes ever perpetrated, US Attorney…

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