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On OneCoin Greenwood Wants Delay to Dec 18 As Armenta Pursued By Inner City Press

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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 28 – As Inner City Press covered the OneCoin trial in October 2019, a number of names of indicted co-conspirators emerged on which we followed up.

  One of them was Gilbert Armenta, who  recorded Ruja Ignatova. Inner City Press has repeatedly asked the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York for more information; it continues even now to withhold the exhibits it flashed on the screen at trial. Inner City Press had to file a FOIA request; the Department of Justice denied expedited processing.

  Then on August 6, Konstantin Ignatov got himself released from the civil suit, full filing here.

 Now on September 28 this - a request to push Greenwood's case back into December: "United States v. Karl Sebastian Greenwood Case: 17-CR-630 Dear Judge Ramos, This office represents Mr. Greenwood. On the government’s consent, we are writing to request an adjournment of next week’s court conference from October 5, 2020 to December 18, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. The reason for this request is that while we are still navigating a material portion of the discovery in this case, our ability to confer with our client has been substantially curtailed for months. Indeed, today was the first time we have been able to meet with our client in person. Nevertheless, we have had several conferences with the government and are in the process of receiving additional discovery materials that we anticipate to be voluminous. The requested adjournment will allow time for us to review this tranche of discovery and, in turn, to give appropriate advice to our client. If this request is granted, we will consent to the exclusion of time from October 5, 2020 to December 18, 2020 for speedy trial purposes." We'll continue to cover this.

 On September 16 in a filing with Judge Caproni more details: Ignatov's cooperation with the civil case plaintiff included calls on September 11 and 16: "Re: Grablis v. OneCoin Ltd. et. al., Case No. 1:19-cv-4074 Dear Judge Caproni: We write on behalf of Lead Plaintiff Donald Berdeaux and Plaintiff Christine Grablis (together, “Plaintiffs”) in the above-captioned matter (the “Action”). Plaintiffs request clarification from the Court regarding: (1) whether Plaintiffs have already received leave to file a Second Amended Complaint based on this Court’s July 24, 2019 Order (the “July 2019 Order,” ECF No. 39), and if not, whether Plaintiffs must seek leave to file a Second Amended Complaint; and (2) based upon the July 2019 Order, whether Plaintiffs must choose to file either a Second Amended Complaint or file an opposition to the Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss... Then-Defendant Ignatov was voluntarily dismissed from this Action without prejudice on August 20, 2020 on the basis of cooperation with Plaintiffs. [ECF No. 118]. Since granting the extension, and due to the issues involved with navigating call schedules with an inmate, Plaintiffs were able to obtain their first interview with Ignatov on September 11, 2020, and their second interview on September 16, 2020. These interviews have produced substantial useful information with which to bolster Plaintiffs’ claims in a Second Amended Complaint."

  The willingness to hide Armenta and the case against him, as he continued dubious business presumably for others, has Inner City Press wondering about these individuals it is researching through links to Ruja Ignatova's RavenR:

Thomas Christodoulou
Maria Serbina
Joanna Hilary Alinson
Simon John Longworth
Anna Marie Longworth
Robert Henry Rothenberg
Gary Michael Gilford
Nikolaou Nikolaos
Louca Theocharis
Mary Skoullou
Giannakis Tsiannaros
Svitlana Kolesnyk
Cyprus Development Bank
Vladislav Velkov

We'll have more on this.   Here are the Armenta business moves Inner City Press exclusively reported on December 1, 2019, here:

  ESOL B.V. LLC was incorporated on July 8, 2019; the manager is Gilbert Armenta and the agent is Giselle Valentin, both of 500 E. Broward Boulevard, PH 2, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394. See here. And here.

   Armenta's Tblisi, Georgia-based money laundering bank JSC Capital Bank had as its parent a company of exactly this name. See KPMG review of Georgia banking sector here. More on Armenta's ongoing companies on Patreon here.

  Inner City Press asked, on December 1, 2019: Is the US Attorney's Office allowing its cooperator to keep on money laundering? Or looking the other way while whatever cooperation agreement exists is openly violated?
Perhaps these and other quesitons will be answered in connection with Armenta's sentencing in the too long seal case against him. Watch this site.

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