Argentina is currently investigating OneCoin and prosecutors in Cordoba have approved the arrest of 4 suspects. These include Rodrigo Domínguez, Aldo Leguizamón, and two others accused of defrauding customers through the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
Argentinian OneCoin arrests climb to fourteen suspects
It is known that Dominguez and Lguizamon are famous as local businessmen and doctors respectively.
Rodrigo Domínguez
After OneCoin collapsed, Dominguez continued to promote ZevenCoin. ZevenCoin was tied into the promotion of an “ozone capsule” developed by Dominguez’s company Elypson Home. It is an ozone capsule capable of sanitizing and performing intelligent temperature control, in relation to COVID-19. He then continued his marketing by claiming ZevenCoin’s owners were financing the development of the capsule. In turn, Dominguez and Elypson Home promote ZevenCoin.
One by one, the allegations of the Argentine prosecutors about ZevenCoin appeared:
- ZevenCoin has never existed and is a scam pyramid scheme aimed at depriving customers of large sums of money
- “ZevenCoin sold smoke, indicating that they were offering a counterfeit cryptocurrency
- The ZevenCoin website is now defunct
Besides, Leguizamon is the operator of “Cripto Travel”, a merchant store on OneCoin’s failed DealShaker platform. Cripto Travel’s business is also quite shady. The company says it is selling new Toyota cars to Argentines. The vehicles were purchased in ONE token, plus an additional $1500 in expenses and freight. However, in reality, Cripto Travel’s listings were stolen from a Mexican auto company and no vehicles were delivered.
DealShaker, the sale page
The full list of OneCoin scammers caught in Argentina so far is:
- Adolfo Gustavo Amuchástegui
- Eduardo Alejandro Taylor
- Edgar Nicolás Moreno
- Monica Gabriela Blasco
- Mariana Noel López (under house arrest)
- Manuel Vicente Peralta Guevara
- Andrés Matías López
- Ricardo Beretta
- Ariel Eduardo Morassut
- Daniel Cornaglia
- Aldo Leguizamon
- Nancy Diazamon
- Hernán Pizarro and
- Rodrigo Dominguez
However, the most important suspects in the OneCoin case, Ruja Ignatova, Konstantin Ignatov, and Jose Gordo, are not responsible for their actions.
In it, Ruja Ignatova, the founder of OneCoin, disappeared at the end of 2017. Konstantin Ignatov, Ruja’s brother and former OneCoin CEO, was arrested by US authorities in March 2019. Ignatov has pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to OneCoin and is awaiting sentencing.
And finally, Jose Gordo is said to have Spanish citizenship. He is one of OneCoin’s highest earners. Gordo was appointed Master Distributor of Latin America and Mexico after Sebastian Greenwood’s arrest. In mid to late 2019, Gordo abandoned OneCoin. He returned as the promoter of Apex International, a short-lived Ponzi spinoff of Kuvera Global, in October 2019. At some point, Gordo fled to Panama. He is still on the run from criminal charges.
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