Episode 8: The technology and the dream

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Unknown

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The final episode takes an unexpected twist. Presenter: Jamie Bartlett Producer: Georgia Catt Additional Research: Ignatius Bahizi Editor: Philip Sellars Original music and sound design: Phil Channell Original Music and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London Bulgarian Choir

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	Dr Rooja is closer than we think.
0:18.1	Probably in Europe, and we believe she spends a lot of time in Frankfurt.
0:23.3	Maybe she leaves sometimes, perhaps travelling under a fake passport to somewhere out of
0:27.9	reach from the US authorities, Dubai, or possibly Russia.
0:32.9	We wanted to find the missing Crypto Queen, but the more we learned, the more we wanted
0:38.6	to find something else.
0:40.6	How far her vision had spread and its cost to ordinary people.
0:48.4	So we're with a 22-year-old one-coin investor called Daniel.
0:54.1	Driving to his small village near the border between Uganda and Rwanda.
1:01.1	Some scams don't start out fully formed.
1:06.8	They often begin life with a few cut corners or by taking advantage of some gap in the
1:12.3	law.
1:13.3	Sometimes, the people involved think they can turn it around.
1:18.6	But then the scams start to grow.
1:21.5	It starts to spread.
1:24.4	More compromises are made, and before long, it's too late to go back.
1:31.7	I don't think Dr Rooja ever thought one coin would make it to where we're going.
1:39.9	Where Daniel is from, 3,000 miles from Frankfurt and Sofia, Dr Rooja is a household name.
1:47.9	How?
1:54.9	My name is Turya Singh Radhani, a lay-knit.
1:58.9	I'm a 22-year-old.
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