On January twenty fifth the brokerage BDSwiss confirmed it by no means had a partnership with GSPartners.
On January thirtieth BehindMLM realized of BDSwiss’ announcement and coated GSPartners’ deception. It wasn’t the primary time proprietor Josip Heit had been caught mendacity about enterprise partnerships.
Following BDSwiss’ announcement, GSPartners is now protecting up its lies by way of a brand new Skyground Group partnership.
When it launched its “metaverse certificates” Ponzi scheme in Could 2022, BDSwiss was offered as a buying and selling accomplice.
Purportedly by way of buying and selling finished by BDSwiss, GSPartners traders had been provided a 300% return over 18 months on as much as $100,000.
Up till BDSwiss confirmed it had by no means had something to do with GSPartners, returns of 4.15% every week on as much as $200,000 in tether had been nonetheless being provided (click on to enlarge):
The metaverse certificates funding plans haven’t modified, however now ROI income is purportedly generated by way of Skyground Group.
Skyground Group’s web site area (‘skyground.group”), was bought on Could third, 2022. Skyground Group was then launched in September 2022.
Skyground Group is run by Alexander and Konstantin Oelfke.
The Oelfke brothers used to work for BDSwiss however left in October and August 2021 respectively.
BDSwiss has monetary regulatory licenses in a number of jurisdictions. In asserting its faux partnership with the brokerage, GSPartners integrated this into their metaverse certificates advertising and marketing:
Versus BDSwiss and its monetary licenses, Skyground Group exists solely as “Skyground Providers Ltd.”; a shell firm integrated in Cyprus.
The Oelfke brothers reside in Germany, and it’s from there Skyground Group truly operates. This ties into Josip Heit, believed to be a Croatian nationwide, spending his time between Dubai and Germany.
GSPartners’ protecting up its BDSwiss partnership lie has been offered to traders as a “new” partnership announcement by Alexander Oelfke.
Alexander Oelfke, CEO of SKYGROUND Group, completely declares thrilling new Partnership within the Metaverse Sector
After a profitable six-month trial interval, the place a number of corporations participated, SKYGROUND is now an official expertise accomplice of lydian.world Metaverse.
As a expertise supplier, SKYGROUND helps many main on-line brokers worldwide with first-class expertise modules, utilizing related buying and selling expertise, similar to MT4 and MT5, additionally utilized by established conventional brokers like IG Group, Swissquote, and BDSwiss.
The headline is a little bit of an odd selection, seeing because the press-release doesn’t truly quote Oelfke.
And the final paragraph I’ve quoted is fairly misleading. It’s inferred that Skyground Group is utilizing “related buying and selling expertise” to BDSwiss.
“MT4” and “MT5” references MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. MetaTrader software program is developed by MetaQuotes, who present MetaTrader totally free to the general public or licensed to brokers.
MetaTrader itself is simply buying and selling software program, it requires enter from a third-party to do any precise buying and selling (both the end-user or automation by way of a bot).
Skyground Group pretending getting access to MetaTrader equates them to BDSwiss, when anybody can entry MetaTrader, is a weak try and cowl up GSPartner’s deception.
If I can merely the deception; it’s like operating a enterprise and pretending you’re the identical as a competitor since you each run Microsoft Home windows in your places of work.
GSPartners’ Skyground Group press-release (which has been syndicated to a bunch of paid press-release spam websites), was submitted by Berliner Tageszeitung.
In 2021 Josip Heit, by way of GSMedia, purchased Berliner Tageszeitung and two different defunct German on-line information portals.
Since then Berliner Tageszeitung has been used to publish content material syndicated from elsewhere – in addition to the odd GSPartners press-release.
At time of publication, SimilarWeb tracks negligible visitors to Berliner Tageszeitung’s web site.
Why use Berliner Tageszeitung for the Skyground Group press-release? It’s a comical try and faux it isn’t GSPartners and Heit blowing their very own horns.
GSPartners’ amusing BDSwiss cowl ups apart, we’re left with the query of securities fraud.
GSPartners providing traders a passive weekly return, now purportedly by way of Skyground Group, is sort of clearly a securities providing.
Neither Skyground Group, the Oelfke brothers, GSPartners or Josip Heit are registered to supply securities in any jurisdiction.
Because of this, at a minimal, GSPartners and Skyground Group are committing securities fraud.
Primarily based on web site visitors evaluation by SimilarWeb, at current prime sources of visitors to GSPartners’ web site are the US (71%), Portugal (11%) and Canada (7%).
Securities within the US are regulated by the SEC. Thus far the SEC hasn’t taken any motion towards GSPartners and Heit for defrauding and persevering with to defraud US residents.
In Germany, authorities have been asleep on the wheel since Josip Heit’s Karatbars Worldwide catastrophe in 2019.
Pending any additional Skyground Group “metaverse certificates” updates, we’ll preserve you posted.