Disbarred OneCoin lawyer Per Danielsen has misplaced his case towards the Norwegian authorities.
In handing down its June twenty third determination, the Oslo District Courtroom discovered Danielsen had “persistently deviated from acceptable lawyer conduct”.
The District Courtroom rejected Danielsen’s declare that there had been “procedural errors” resulting in his disbarment.
Danielsen filed swimsuit after he was disbarred for working for Ruja Ignatova in a fashion that was “aggressive and reckless”.
Along with being suspected of aiding Ignatova launder OneCoin Ponzi funds, the District Courtroom
additional emphasised that the 67 disciplinary complaints and 14 disciplinary convictions towards Danielsen between 2017 and 2022 are necessary within the total evaluation.
In handing down her order, Choose Heger famous;
Repeated reprehensible actions and breaches {of professional} duties have been confirmed, leading to an intensive lack of belief for Danielsen.
It is going to additionally lead to a severe lack of confidence for the authorized career if Danielsen is allowed to maintain the licence.
BehindMLM first got here throughout Danielsen in early 2017. On the time Norwegian authorities had been trying into going after Norwegian OneCoin promoters.
Talking on behalf of his consumer, Per Danielsen insisted OneCoin “had no enterprise in Norway”. Danielsen additionally denied OneCoin was a pyramid scheme, as alleged by the Gaming Board on the time.
Regardless of Danielsen’s denials and misinformation, the Norwegian investigation into OneCoin continued.
In December 2018 the Gaming Board revealed it had requested info on Norwegian buyers from OneCoin.
In response to the Gaming Board’s disclosure, Danielsen laughably claimed OneCoin “is worldwide and doesn’t have separate figures for Norway.”
On the time OneCoin was within the midst of a KYC legitimacy advertising marketing campaign.
Lastly in December 2019, Danielsen made a number of public statements in response to OneCoin cash launderer Mark Scott’s conviction, and information Konstantin Ignatov was cooperating with US authorities.
Ignatov has by no means acknowledged that Onecoin is fraudulent. He has solely testified towards (the) US Legal professional (Mark) Scott and acknowledged that the lawyer should have carried out wire fraud, ie transferring cash between states in america with out permission.
It has no reference to Onecoin.
Ignatov is now launched as a result of he has cooperated with the prosecutor’s workplace in america.
So he’s not being pursued for his place with Onecoin, and can in all probability quickly develop into a free man.
When requested about US authorities claiming OneCoin was a fraudulent enterprise in court docket, Danielsen once more issued laughable denials.
You might be misinformed. The US prosecutor has not acknowledged what you might be referring to.
The truth that an worker of the tax authority has acknowledged one thing on this route isn’t proof of what the prosecuting authority thinks.
It’s simply an expression of what a random worker thinks. As unimportant as what a journalist may assume, in actual fact.
How a lot soiled cash Ruja Ignatova paid Danielsen is unclear.
US Prosecutors are on the report claiming OneCoin was a $4 billion greenback Ponzi scheme.
Mark Scott was convicted of laundering stolen OneCoin Ponzi funds.
Konstantin Ignatov isn’t a “free man”. He stays beneath residence detention, pending completion of his cooperation with US authorities.
And Per Danielsen is a dishonest scumbag who has lastly been disbarred. As of Could 2023, Danielsen can not apply regulation in Norway.
