Ruja Ignatova was the darling of the cryptocurrency world. Now, both she and billions of investor funds are missing. Hundreds of Irish investors have been caught, while the perpetrators are alleged to have laundered $300 million through Bank of Ireland. However, the story has taken a new twist, and it centres on horseracing. Horse Racing Ireland, the national authority for thoroughbred racing, has said it is “monitoring” reports about Phoenix Thoroughbreds, a Middle East organisation with a number of horses in Ireland. The founder of this business, Amer Abdulaziz Salmans, has been accused in a US court of being a…

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