– Luchezar Avramov and Dimitar Stoianovich’s project traces the get-rich-quick scam OneCoin, promoted as a cryptocurrency by a Bulgarian-based offshore company
Luchezar Avramov (left) and Dimitar Stoianovich
The Bulgarian duo of directors-screenwriters Luchezar Avramov and Dimitar Stoianovich (A Picture with Yuki [+see also:
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The highly educated entrepreneur Ignatova, who promised to make the world rich through a revolutionary cryptocurrency, was living a glamorous life that attracted vast audiences to her OneCoin lectures. She managed to persuade everyone to invest in her project and promised to double everyone’s coins, but instead of fulfilling those dreams, she disappeared, leaving behind a story of greed, deceit, fraud, around 3.6 million victims all over the…
