Carter-Ruck partner Claire Frances Gill, admitted in 1996, was alleged to have sent or arranged to have sent, the ‘improper threat’ in April 2017. At the time, Carter-Ruck was acting for now-disappeared ‘crypto queen’ Dr Ruja Ignatova, whose OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme was later discovered to be be a Ponzi-style fraud. Gill denied the allegation in full.