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In OneCoin Trial Konstantin Ignatov Testifies For US About Sister Ruja and Mark Scott Sophia Visit

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon, Thread

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Nov 5 – After OneCoin's Konstantin Ignatov got a stay of the civil case against him, then his criminal case was said to have been kicked down the road for at least another two months.

It was a productive two months, at least for the U.S. Attorney's Office.

On November 5 in the case against accused OneCoin money launderer Mark Scott Konstantin Ignatov took the witness stand, in prison blues with his neck and arm tattoos, as a cooperating witness.

He described OneCoin as a multi level marketing operation and identified the Sophia headquarters where Mark Scott visited.

   Earlier in the day, the US prosecutors played videos of Ruja Ignatova telling audiences she was doubling their OneCoins - "one time only!" -- and saying her company was "the BitCoin killer... I kind of like that." Inner City Press has asked the US Attorney's Office to provide it access to the exhibits as was done in the recent trials involving Honduras and rapper 6ix9ine (who sat in the same witness stand as Konstantin Ignatov, both cooperating witnesses in prison blues.)

   The day ended with Assistant US Attorney Nicholas Folly still questioning Konstantin Ignatov. But next will come the cross examination by Scott's lawyers. Watch this site.

Inner City Press is live-tweeting it, November 4 thread here. Patreon here.  November 5 thread here. And Nov 5 Patreon here.

  On November 4 before jury selection, in oral arguments Scott's lawyers asked Judge Ramos to not allow into evidence information and chats found on a Samsung Galaxy smart phone for which Mark Scott paid but was used by his wife, with a Russian keyboard. Judge Ramos declined to suppress it.

  It also emerged that still-missing Ruja Ignatova rented space underneath cooperator Gilbert Armenta to listen in on him. More on that and on jury selection (which included questions on multi level marketing) is on Patreon, here.

On Monday, October 28 in a two hour pre-trial conference covered by Inner City Press, Judge Ramos said that the government can show photos of Scott with a yacht and cars that he purchased.

  The government said the trial will take two to three weeks.

The case is US v. Scott / Ignatov, 17-cr-630 (Ramos).

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