OneCoin co-founder Sebastian Greenwood has fired his attorneys on the eve of a pretrial convention.

In a submitting requesting permission to withdraw from the case, Greenwood’s former legal professional claims he’s “dealing with extraordinary publicity”.

Greenwood’s new legal professional filed an look on February twentieth. His prior legal professional filed for withdrawal on February twenty second.

We’re writing as a result of our consumer has terminated his relationship with our workplace and employed new counsel, and thus we’re requesting go away
to withdraw as counsel in accordance with New York’s Guidelines of Skilled Conduct.

We admire that this request is sophisticated by the historical past of attorneys who’ve been retained and terminated in the midst of these proceedings.

The case had been pending for years earlier than we have been employed as counsel, and we acquired the Court docket’s good graces after we have been retained
with a purpose to facilitate our capability to obtain and evaluation the invention.

Nonetheless, Mr. Greenwood is dealing with extraordinary publicity on this matter.

Greenwood’s legal professional shuffle noticed his pre-trial convention rescheduled from February twenty fourth to April twenty eighth.

In mild of protection counsel’s trial schedule, the events respectfully request an adjournment of roughly two months of the pretrial convention to allow protection counsel ample time to evaluation discovery and seek the advice of with the defendant.

After Greenwood’s new attorneys evaluation the case and conclude he’s screwed, we’ll be again at sq. one.

Greenwood (proper) was indicted in 2018.

Following his subsequent arrest in Thailand, he was quietly extradited to the US.

Since then Greenwood has been locked up at MCC New York.

There Greenwood continued to commit monetary crimes by means of an illegally obtained cellphone.

I’m undecided what number of attorneys Greenwood (proper) has employed and fired so far, however the courtroom’s endurance might be working skinny.

Greenwood has so far rejected plea offers and intends to go to trial. However not with out a miracle lawyer it appears.