{
  "uid": "fbi-ten-ruja-ignatova",
  "slug": "ruja-ignatova",
  "name": "RUJA IGNATOVA",
  "agency": "FBI",
  "list": "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives",
  "category": "Financial / cyber",
  "charge": "Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud; Wire Fraud; Money Laundering; Securities Fraud (OneCoin, ~$4B crypto fraud)",
  "reward": 5000000,
  "reward_text": "FBI/State Dept reward $5 million",
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "state": "NY",
  "state_name": "New York",
  "status": "At large",
  "warning": "",
  "image_url": "https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ruja-ignatova/@@images/image/large",
  "source_url": "https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ruja-ignatova",
  "updated": "2026-06-05",
  "kind": "wanted",
  "caution": "",
  "remarks": "",
  "hook": "On October 25, 2017, she boarded a flight from Sofia to Athens. No one has seen her since.",
  "blurb": "For a few years, Ruja Ignatova was the most magnetic figure in cryptocurrency. She filled arenas in a ballgown and told roaring crowds that her creation, OneCoin, would make Bitcoin obsolete. Believers around the world wired in more than $4 billion. Prosecutors would later allege the coin was a fiction, that there was nothing behind it at all. In October 2017, as investigators began to circle, Ignatova flew from Bulgaria to Greece and walked off into the crowd at Athens airport. She is presumed innocent. She is also, the FBI says, possibly traveling under a surgically altered face and the cover of armed guards.",
  "mystery": "Eight years on, the trail still ends on that tarmac, and the reward for picking it back up has climbed to $5 million.",
  "rib": "",
  "ribcls": "",
  "source_class": "fbi_sync",
  "corroborated_agencies": [],
  "sections": {
    "photo": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "charges": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "location": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "reward": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "source": {
      "status": "available",
      "message": ""
    },
    "corroboration": {
      "status": "empty",
      "message": "No other authoritative agency currently lists a matching name for this case."
    }
  }
}