10. The Dubai Files

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Unknown

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

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 emirate and struck up a relationship with a mysterious sheikh. Then, a careless selfie leads the podcast to a mansion in an exclusive gated community. As the FBI steps up its search, new information surfaces about Dr Ruja’s disappearance from an unlikely source.

Presenter: Jamie Bartlett Producers: Rob Byrne and Georgia Catt Series Producer: Georgia Catt Commissioner: Dylan Haskins Series Editor: Philip Sellars Original music and sound design: Phil Channell Original music and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London Bulgarian Choir Featuring footage from: LiveNow from Fox, 5en News, Prag News, Welt Netzreporter The Missing Cryptoqueen is a BBC Documentaries production for BBC Sounds and BBC 5Live

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Georgia, the producer of the missing crypto queen.
0:03.7	Before we bring you this new episode, I wanted to jump in to quickly tell you about a new
0:08.0	podcast I've been working on, which is out now.
0:11.0	It's called Burn Wild, and is presented by Leah Sotili. For almost two years
0:16.0	we've been recording with one of the world's most wanted fugitive
0:19.4	environmentalists. The FBI say that he and the group he was a part of are eco-terrorists.
0:25.0	But as with the missing crypto queen, things perhaps aren't what they seem.
0:30.0	So before we get into crypto queen, here's a short trailer and listen to the end of this episode for a longer preview.
0:37.0	How many people who have been on the FBI's most wanted list have ever sat down for a podcast with the BBC.
0:44.7	For over a decade, a pair of mug shots have lived side by side on the FBI's website.
0:50.8	These individuals are considered as terrorists.
0:53.4	In 2005, they were called the number one domestic terror threat in America.
0:58.6	Estimates are a quarter billion dollars in damages.
1:01.1	The cause of their alleged terrorist actions, the environment.
1:05.3	Our purpose was direct action to disrupt environmental destruction.
1:10.8	How far is too far to go to stop the planet burning?
1:14.0	If it's not me, then it's who.
1:16.0	And if it's not now, then it's when.
1:19.0	Burn wild.
1:20.0	Find us now on BBC Sounds.
1:24.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
1:28.0	Quick warning before we begin.
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