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(Bloomberg) -- The former head of legal and compliance for the phony cryptocurrency OneCoin was sentenced to four years in prison after admitting she helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the scam..
US District Judge Edgardo Ramos on Wednesday declined her request to avoid prison and return home to Bulgaria to care for her two small children..
Dilkinska is the latest person to receive a prison term for her involvement in OneCoin, a $4 billion international Ponzi scheme that never had a functioning cryptocurrency..
Prosecutors claimed that, from 2014 through 2019, Dilkinska helped Mark Scott, OneCoins US-based lawyer, launder $400 million in OneCoin proceeds through a series of phony Cayman Islands investment funds..
Dilkinskas bid for leniency cited the one year shes already spent in custody at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where shes been confined since being extradited from Bulgaria..
