Earlier in the present day a reader reached out with an fascinating discover:
What you’re are Bulgarian singers Alisia & Тoni Storaro, selling their new single “Полудях”.
The music video for Полудях was uploaded to YouTube on July seventh…
…and it was shot at Ruja Ignatova’s Sozopol mansion.
Ignatova, founding father of the infamous OneCoin Ponzi scheme and on the FBI’s prime 10 most wished record, spent $2.5 million constructing her Sozopol mansion again in 2017.
Ignatova disappeared in October 2017, however building on her Sozopol mansion continued all through 2018.
So how on Earth did Ruja Ignatova’s mansion wind up in a 2023 Bulgarian music video?
One would suppose if Ignatova had deserted the property it will be considerably dilapidated after 5 years however that’s clearly not the case.
In my seek for solutions I got here throughout Alisia Storaro’s Instagram put up selling the video:
On the backside of the put up “The Lodge Luxurious Villa Sozopol” was tagged.
The Lodge Luxurious Villa is what Ruja Ignatova’s mansion now goes by and, as of early 2022, the property is rentable.
Ignatova’s mansion has had its personal “reserving.com” entry since September 2022. Bookings begin at ~$1200 USD an evening – there aren’t any critiques.
Or you possibly can guide Ignatova’s home immediately from its personal web site, arrange over at “thelodgevilla.bg”.
Perched on a cliff, on a secluded bay in one in every of our most well-known seaside resorts, Sozopol, The Lodge Luxurious Villa welcomes its friends for a novel expertise… unknown till now.
Surrounded by sea and freedom, it is able to provide all the pieces you might be on the lookout for, wanting, eager for.
We’ve chosen the place for you – an ideal mixture of premium area and actual luxurious! Utterly self-contained and indifferent, the villa permits for absolute privateness.
The Lodge Luxurious Villa even has its personal FaceBook profile, created in April 2022.
So who’s cashing in on renting out a mansion final identified to belong to a member of the FBI’s High 10 Most Wished Record?
Nicely, you gained’t discover any possession particulars on The Lodge Luxurious Villa’s web site or FaceBook web page.
The area “thelodgevilla.bg” was registered on April thirtieth, 2022. The listed proprietor of the area is “Holidayinvest 2009”.
This corresponds to Holidayinvest 2009 EOOD, a Bulgarian shell firm registered in January 2009.
Listed homeowners of Holidayinvest 2009 EOOD are Kiril Ivanov Yovnov, Ivan Kirov Yovnov. Georgi Nikolov Atanasov was listed as a managing associate in some unspecified time in the future.
Who’re these individuals?
No concept.
One thing else we get from The Lodge Luxurious Villa’s web site area registration is an e mail handle hosted at “big97.com”. This area redirects to “big-bg.com”, owned by Bulgarian Industrial Group.
Bulgarian Industrial Group claims to be “a number one business of engineers and designers.”
Why is Bulgarian Industrial Group tied to Ruja Ignatova’s Sozopol mansion?
Once more, no concept.
Sadly this was the restrict of what I used to be in a position to confirm primarily based on publicly obtainable data I used to be in a position to auto-translate.
From what collect, Holidayinvest 2009 EOOD manages motels and such. They got here up in a June 2023 Iskra article, as earlier homeowners of a beachfront property bought by way of a “secret bidding” course of.
The way in which I see it, we have now two eventualities right here:
- Ruja Ignatova or somebody appearing on her behalf nonetheless owns the Sozopol mansion, and is profiting off of renting it out; or
- Holidayinvest 2009 EOOD bought the mansion off Ignatova or somebody representing her property.
Each scenations are problematic.
With respect to state of affairs one, Ruja Ignatova is a wished fugitive. The FBI, Interpol and Europol all have warrants out for her arrest.
State of affairs two is problematic in that Ruja Ignatova famously disappeared in October 2017.
Development on the Sozopol mansion continued into 2018, that means it needed to of been bought after Ignatova disappeared. Who signed off on that and who was the monetary beneficiary?
In the event you’re questioning why Bulgarian authorities haven’t investigated these leads, it’s as a result of OneCoin operates underneath the safety of Bulgarian authorities
To today OneCoin nonetheless operates overtly from the unique Sofia workplaces Ruja Ignatova bought again in 2015.
OneCoin’s Sofia workplace is run by Bulgarian nationwide Georgi Georgiev.
Georgiev is believed to work for organized crime pursuits in Bulgaria and overseas.
