"Take the Money and Run": True-Crime Series About "Krypto-Queen" Ruja Ignatova

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"One Coin, One Family" is her motto – The series makers put the fraud in the centre, the perspective of the victims is too short

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The internationally sought-after Ruja Ignatova came from Bulgaria to Schramberg in the Black Forest as a child with her brother Konstantin and her parents in the 90s. She went to school here and later earned her doctorate in economics at the University of Konstanz. Today, the FBI and Europol have Ignatova on their "Most Wanted" lists, she is at the center of a billion-dollar fraud: Around 2012 the Bitcoin was the big racer. As a result, imitator…