Late final yr OneCoin scammers started pushing the narrative that the Ukrainian authorities had entered into cooperation with the Ponzi scheme.
Yesterday the Ukraine authorities issued an official assertion, denying any partnership with OneCoin.
As initially reported by BehindMLM reader WhistleBlowerFin, final October Luca Miatton organized a gathering with Ukraine Deputy PM Oley Uruskiy.
We don’t know particularly what was mentioned, however as above OneCoin associates framed the assembly as a “assembly (to debate the) legalization of OneCoin”.
The next month, OneCoin affiliate Lidiia Koteliak doubled down on the Ukraine legalization narrative.
By the tip of this month we’re planning to have a gathering with the top of Nationwide financial institution of Ukraine.
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This assembly will likely be essential for us as a result of there will likely be numerous solutions, and we may have constructive solutions there, and naturally one the solutions will likely be about legalization of OneCoin Ukraine.
Koteliak seems to be the hyperlink between OneCoin and entry to Ukranian members of parliament, having served as a former Individuals’s Deputy between 2012 and 2014.
Nothing a lot appears to have occurred after that, till earlier this month.
As reported by BehindMLM reader Semjon, Luca Miatton and Cristi Calina appeared on a Might 1st OneCoin webinar.
On the webinar Miatton and Calina
showcase(d) a doc claiming to be an approval of “Central financial institution of Ukraine” to green-light using OneCoin as a monetary asset.
They discuss Luca changing into a president of a financial institution in Ukraine — one that can begin hand out OneCoin fee playing cards to OneCoin members once more.
The financial institution will likely be first of its type to work with OneCoin.
The doc was from Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. The division is at the moment headed up by Mykhailo Fedorov, Uktraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation.
The doc reads;
Pricey Mr. Luca Miatton!
The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (hereinafter – Mincyfry) has analyzed your request (petition) relating to the knowledge of “21” April 2021 and informs you.
The Authorities of Ukraine is focused on cooperating together with your firm, because it was one of many first within the cryptocurrency market to take the initiative to hold out a proper systemic exercise specialised in current home laws, which is being persistently adopted and carried out.
After defining the principles for taxing cryptocurrency transactions, we may have the chance to legalize cryptocurrency and launch probably the most modern areas of the world financial system and begin cooperation with ONELIFE on the introduction of OneCoin cryptocurrency within the authorized monetary area in Ukraine.
To ensure that the principles offered by legislation to work, it’s needed for the suppliers of digital asset providers associated to the motion of digital property to work and to create a register within the authorized area and to use the AML guidelines to them.
Thus, Ukrainian authorities and monetary establishments are at the moment engaged on the duties described above and the adoption of related authorized acts and the popularity of OneCoin as a monetary asset in Ukraine (a digital asset assured by monetary devices), particularly the formal conclusion of memorandum, agreements, contracts.
To make sure this purpose, working teams are arrange below our ministry, thematic debates and public hearings are organized. We invite the representatives of your organization to cooperate within the planning of the authorized framework inside the limits of guaranteeing the legislative regulation of the pursuits of the cryptocurrency market.
Respectfully,
First Secretary of State
Oleksii Vyskub
The letter is dated April twenty eighth, 2021.
Simply shy of a month later, the Ukraine authorities claims the letter quoted from above is faux.
We wish to inform you that the Authorities of Ukraine has not introduced cooperation with ONELIFE and the introduction of the cryptocurrency OneCoin in Ukraine.
All the knowledge contained within the letter posted on the Web is such that it doesn’t correspond to the actual state of affairs.
The assertion was issued in response to an inquiry letter, despatched to the Ukrainian authorities by Bykvu, a Ukrainian information outlet.
The ministry additionally burdened that fraudsters from OneCoin are utilizing a faux letter allegedly signed by First Deputy Minister Oleksiy Vyskub .
The Ministry of Finance added that this letter was not signed by the mentioned official and was not despatched to anybody.
“The related assertion on the dissemination of false data within the community has already been despatched to legislation enforcement companies,” the Ministry of Finance added.
Whether or not any heads roll on account of the deception stays to be seen.
Actually if I used to be answerable for investigating the matter, I’d be in search of interrogation of Luca Miatton and Lidiia Koteliak.
Luca Miatton is a OneCoin “chief” from Italy. In line with her Fb profile, Lidiia Koteliak resides in Lviv, Ukraine.
Additionally whereas the Ukraine authorities may write off Miatton’s Ministry of Digital Transformation letter as faux, there’s no denying representatives with the Ukraine authorities met Miatton and Koteliak late final yr.
The specifics of how that assembly was arrange and what precisely was mentioned are additionally in all probability value trying into.
