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On March 21, 2023, U.S. law enforcement officials announced the unsealing of charges against Irina Dilkinska relating to her participation in the massive OneCoin fraud scheme.[1] OneCoin, which started operations in 2014 and was headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria, marketed and sold a fraudulent cryptocurrency called OneCoin through a global multi-level-marketing (“MLM”) network. The marketing and misrepresentations tricked victims into investing over $4 billion worldwide in fraudulent cryptocurrency. On March 20, Bulgaria extradited Dilkinska from Bulgaria and she was presented to U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn the following day.[2]
[1] United States v. Irina Dilkinska, U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y., S14 17 Cr. 630 (ER), Sealed Superseding Indictment.
[2] Id. para. 2. U.S. Attorney Office, SDNY, Bulgarian Woman for Role in Multi-Billion-Dollar Cryptocurrency Pyramid Scheme “OneCoin” and Extradited from Bulgaria to the United States, Press Rel. 23-108, Mar. 21, 2023.