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ARTICLE · 18 MAY 2026

OneCoin Refund 2026: How Victims Can Claim Compensation

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an official compensation programme for OneCoin victims, known as the OneCoin Remission Program, which allows individuals to request the return of part of the funds lost.

The deadline to submit an application is 30 June 2026.

In 2014, OneCoin appeared as the “cryptocurrency of the future”, sold through a global direct sales network.

Its story began with the launch of a “new revolutionary cryptocurrency”, only to later be exposed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the history of crypto fraud, with over 4 billion dollars raised between 2014 and 2019 from tens of thousands of investors worldwide.

What OneCoin was and why it was defined as a scam

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