Involved in Money Laundering, OneCoin Crypto Company Official Sentenced to 4 Years and Compensation of IDR 1.8 Trillion

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Former head of legal affairs in fraud crypto OneCoin, was sentenced to four years in prison after admitting that he was involved in laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent proceeds.

Quoted from the page Mint, Thursday (4/4/2024) Irina Dilkinska pleaded guilty in November 2023 to charges of fraud and money laundering conspiracy in the OneCoin case.

United States District Judge Edgardo Ramos rejected Dilkinska's request not to serve her prison sentence and return to Bulgaria to care for her two young children.

Dilkinska was sentenced to 10 years in prison under US federal sentencing guidelines.

“(Dilkinska) is a very intelligent woman and should have known better,” Ramos said.

He also ordered Dilkinska to pay compensation of USD 118.4 million or Rp. 1.8 trillion due to her involvement in the money laundering case.

“He already has what he needs to know about his involvement in it,” explained Ramos.

“To be honest, I don't understand what prevented him from leaving the scheme before it was cancelled,” he said.

Prosecutors claim that, from 2014 to 2019, Dilkinska helped Mark Scott, a US-based lawyer for OneCoin, launder USD 400 million through a series of fake investment funds in the Cayman Islands.

Scott himself is known as a former partner of Locke Lord LLP who was convicted in 2019 of money laundering. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in January 2024.

Dilkinska's plea for leniency refers to a year she spent in custody at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where she has been confined since being extradited from Bulgaria.

His attorney, John P. Buza, argued that his career had gone off track and been “dragged down” by the fraudsters behind OneCoin.

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