The Missing Cryptoqueen
Episodes
What to listen to next: The Interface
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Interface is your weekly guide to the tech rewiring your week and our world. Hosted by journalists Thomas Germain, Karen Hao, and Nicky Woolf, eac...
16. Off the Record
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
OneCoin victims’ advocate Jen McAdam has helped convince hundreds of Dr Ruja’s scam victims to join her lawsuit. With Dr Ruja missing - possibly d...
15. Pac-Man
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
OneCoin victim Jen McAdam lost thousands in the OneCoin scam, and nearly a decade on, it still dominates her life. Jen blames Dr Ruja, but with her st...
14. The Cablecar
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
With the FBI offering a $5m reward for Dr Ruja, her fame reaches new heights. And so does our search for her, with new clues pointing us to Cape Town,...
13. The South Africa Connection
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
New clues about Dr Ruja emerge in an unlikely - and dangerous - place. We pick up the trail with Scottish OneCoin investor Jen McAdam. Since we releas...
Coming Soon: Four New Episodes of The Missing Cryptoqueen
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been eight years since Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution, before disappearing. Jamie Bartlett picks up the s...
12. Wanted: Dead or Alive?
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The search for Dr Ruja Ignatova takes an unexpected turn when a story emerges alleging she's been murdered. But with with sightings of Dr Ruja still c...
11. Operation Satellite
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How mysterious friends in influential places may have helped Ruja stay one step ahead. A massive revelation we only now know, but which Ruja knew yea...
10. The Dubai Files
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The search for Dr Ruja Ignatova gathers pace, five years after she disappeared. Files leaked from Dubai reveal how Dr Ruja stashed millions in the emi...
9. Follow the Money
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The search for Dr Ruja is back on. A lot has happened since Episode 8.Original music and sound design: Phil Channell Original Music and vocals: Dessis...
8. The Technology and the Dream
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode takes an unexpected twist.Presenter: Jamie Bartlett Producer: Georgia Catt Additional Research: Ignatius Bahizi Editor: Philip Sell...
7. In Plain Sight
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Could Dr Ruja and the missing billions be hidden in plain sight? A number of small leads seem to be pointing to one place.Presenter: Jamie Bartlett Pr...
6. The Überflieger
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009 Dr Ruja and her father bought a metallurgic factory in Southern Germany. What does this have to do with her disappearance today? Those who kne...
5. What Dreams May Come
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
'Who is to blame?'One of the world's highest-earning Multi-Level-Marketers and former OneCoin top seller agrees to speak. In his mansion on the outski...
4. Miss OneLife
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie and Georgia arrive in Bucharest in the hope of seeing their first OneCoin event: The Miss OneLife 2019 Beauty Pageant. Who else could be there?...
3. More Than Just a Coin
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Spring this year, something unexpected happened. On March 6th 2019, Dr Ruja's brother Konstantin was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport ...
2. The Bitcoin Killer
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Not all is as it seems with Dr Ruja's revolutionary cryptocurrency, OneCoin.The Missing Cryptoqueen is an eight-part series for BBC Sounds, with new e...
1. Dr Ruja
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ruja promised financial revolution. And then, two years ago, she disappeared. Why?The Missing Cryptoqueen is an eight-part series for BBC Sounds, w...
Introducing... The Missing Cryptoqueen
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, a businesswoman called Dr Ruja Ignatova launched a new cryptocurrency that promised to change money forever. OneCoin, she said, was similar t...