"Free Konstantin" – a petition to distract scam victims

No, I'm not joking. There actually is a petition that aims to free Konstantin Ignatov. The petition was launched by King Jayms, who is a member of OneLife's Inner Circle and GLG (Global Leaders Group). And yes, this is the same person who thought that it would be alright to shoot a video of himself pretending to kill "haters". 

I modified the picture of the petition site a bit to suit also the future needs of the scammers.

The actual petition has been launched on Change.org which is a popular petition website. There's also a separate website introducing this campaign of "Free K" with testimonials, pictures of Konstantin and a huge load of bullshit.

The petition campaign site states:

"Mr Konstantin Ignatov was detained by the US Justice Department at LAX airport on 6th March 2019 on a series of unjust charges.

A group of OneLife IMAs (Independent Marketing Associates) have decided to stand in solidarity to get the voice of the OneLife network heard. Our mission with this petition is to help the general public at large to see through the lies that are being told by gaining an understanding of the business which OneLife IMA’s has been conducting and to come to see and understand that the charges against our beloved Konstantin Ignatov are unjust, false and unsubstantiated."

A giant facepalm for Jeffrey Lichtman

Ironically, whereas the defence of Konstantin has built their case on claiming that Konstantin was only a lowly assistant of Ruja and certainly not a leader, the top OneCoin leaders promoting the petition are doing their best to ruin this defence strategy. 

The petition website and the testimonials there try to paint a picture of Konstantin as an exceptional leader. He is referred to as "beloved leader", "a superb leader", "more than your average executive" and "our captain". Obviously this isn't going in favor of the defence.

What should be alarming to those still believing in OneCoin, Konstantin's lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman agrees on OneCoin being a scam. If Konstantin had any proof against that he would have already delivered such evidence to the defence. It seems only evident that Konstantin has had to reveal to his defending lawyer that OneCoin was nothing but a scam and they could not build Konstantin's defence on legitimacy of OneCoin. Thus the only option available for the defence is to try to distance Konstantin from the scam.

The petition not going as planned

The petition was launched in mid October and it soon reached above 11k signees. However, the top misleaders of OneCoin were not satisfied. They wanted to reach at least 100k signatures and aim for 1 million.

From there on the petition slowly rose to have around 20k signees. However, OneCoin has allegedly above 3.5 million members so having around 20k signatures on that petition must have been quite embarrassing for the top scammers. It began to seem that there wasn't much interest at all towards freeing Konstantin among the members. I have seen some members even rebelling against the idea of the petition. They would rather have an exchange to cash out their OneCoin possessions.

Then surprisingly during the last couple of days the amount of signatures rose rapidly above 40k. There seemed to be a lot of Eastern Asians suddenly signing the petition. I suspect that someone hired a click farm or two to rapidly increase the amount of signees. I also took some screencaptures of them sharing their thoughts on Change.org why Konstantin should be set free:

All these people share the exact same thought that "Mr. Konstantin is not guilty."

Via Google Translate: "Mr. Konstantin is a positive energy person."

I suppose Change.org (or an automated filter of the site) spotted a massive amount of signatures originating to specific IP address and removed all of them today. However, OneCoin leader Cristi Calina was pointing his finger at other direction. It wasn't Change.org but mysterious "they" who want to stop OneCoin and silence the "OneLife Ecosystem":

– Yeah, sure, it was "they".

There isn't any sense in this petition thing to begin with – other than distract the members from demanding an exchange. Konstantin has been charged of wire fraud. He is not a political prisoner but charged of criminal activity. That's why there is going to be a trial. A petition won't change a thing, not even with one million signees. And above all, it's really just ruining the case of the defence.

After Change.org has been filtering the signatures the amount of signees has remained at around 24k. It looks like it's going to take some time to reach the minimum goal of 100k signees. However, depending on the sentence there could be many many years left to reach that goal.

Anyways, I don't think that Jeffrey Lichtman agrees on this, but the word is that if you OneCoin members want to "make Konstantin smile more" you should sign that petition:

I have only photoshopped the face of Konstantin, the rest is genuine OneCoin propaganda.

Update October 30:

At the moment there are below 20k signees so it seems that Change.org continued removing thousands of suspicious signatures from the petition.