The search for Dr Ruja is back on. A lot has happened since Episode 8. Original music and sound design: Phil Channell Original Music and vocals: Dessislava Stefanova and the London Bulgarian Choir This audio was updated on 12/08/2020 to reflect additional correspondence with Chelgate.
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You came very close to her in Frankfurt.
She's not there now.
I don't think she's in Germany anymore.
She'll be somewhere where nobody expects her to be after everything that's happened, she's felt the network closing around her.
So there are two options.
Either she's extremely cautious because she's felt the network closing in, or otherwise, when she's not there anymore, she cannot.
Well, you've seen what happens.
People talk.
They sing.
What would a big criminal organization do with people who could be such a liability for them?
You know how it works.
15 months ago, Georgia and I set out to find Ruja Ignatova, the founder of an exciting new cryptocurrency called Onecoin.
One family.