The brother of former US President George W Bush has been sensationally implicated in the OneCoin scandal after court documents revealed he had been paid $300,000 to attend a meeting with ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova.
Businessman Neil Bush met with the 38-year-old head of OneCoin in Hong Kong to outline a deal with a company he was connected with – Hoifu Energy – and Ignatova’s OneCoin.
The 64-year-old Texan’s involvement came to light during the testimony of former attorney Mark Scott who is facing charges of fraud and money laundering as part of the ongoing OneCoin trial in New York.
Businessman Neil Bush, son and brother of two world leaders.
Scott claims he was an innocent party in the Ponzi scheme, and could see nothing wrong with the workings of OneCoin. His lawyer – Arlo Devlin-Brown – sought to legitimise Scott’s naivety by citing the involvement of the son and brother of two former world leaders.
Devlin-Brown argued for a subpoena for Bush in order to testify for his client.
Bush, an active investor, had been part of the board of Hoifu Energu owned by Chinese billionaire Dr Hui Chi Ming.
Hoifu had been looking to seal a loan deal worth $60m to be part-funded by OneCoin – details which were set to be thrashed out during the meeting between the three parties in Hong Kong, for which Bush received $300,000.
This, claimed Devlin-Brown to US District Judge Edgardo Ramos, was enough to give Mark Scott reassurance that OneCoin was a perfectly credible finance company.
Judge Ramos invited Mark Scott’s counsel – David Garvin – to speak after confirming details of the meeting and payment.
Garvin read excerpts from the transcript of an FBI interview with Neil Bush.
It read: “Bush recalled that the head of Hoifu Energy, Dr Hui Chi Ming, received a bunch of cryptocurrency for an oil deal in Madagascar. Bush had a residual interest in the cryptocurrency from the oil deal. Bush met the woman from the cryptocurrency company, Ruja Ignatova, in Hong Kong with Dr Hui.”
Quoting some of the files, Garvin added that Hui had told Bush he would be entitled to 10% of the profits if Hui could secure a deal to sell the cryptocurrency. The files confirmed the deal failed to go ahead.
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