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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Let's get crypto.
Let's go cashless.
Let's go crypto.
Doctor Ruja is closer than we think, probably in Europe, and we believe she spends a lot of time in Frankfurt.
Maybe she leaves sometimes, perhaps traveling under a fake passport to somewhere out of reach from the us authorities, Dubai or possibly Russia.
We wanted to find the missing crypto queen, but the more we learned, the more we wanted to find something else.
How far her vision had spread and its cost to ordinary people.
So we're with a 22 year old, one coin investor called Daniel, driving to his small village near the border between Uganda and Rwanda.
Where do you think these guys are from?
Some scams don't start out fully formed.
They often begin life with a few cut corners or by taking advantage of some gap in the law.
Sometimes the people involved think they can turn it around.
But then the scam starts to grow, it starts to spread.
More compromises are made and before long, it's too late to go back.
I don't think Doctor Ruja ever thought one coin would make it to where we're going.
Where Daniel is from.
3000 miles from Frankfurt and Sophia.
Doctor Ruja is a household name.
How uncointained.