Jan Gregory’s Ponzi empire is falling aside.
In what seems to be retaliation in opposition to ongoing investigative reporting into fraud, Gregory has issued a loss of life menace in opposition to Oz, editor and creator of BehindMLM.
In a video uploaded to Jan Gregory’s private YouTube account on June twenty second, 2023, Gregory will be seen firing a weapon at a spread.
The title of the video is “Jan Gregory sharpening his expertise for the longer term encounter with the proprietor of #BehindMLM”.
The background observe to Gregory’s public loss of life menace is “I Shot The Sheriff”, by Bob Marley & the Wailers.
Jan Gregory, aka Jan Strzepka and Jan Gregory Cerato, is a serial promoter of Ponzi schemes.
EmpiresX, a $100 million greenback Ponzi scheme, is simply one of many many Ponzi schemes Gregory has promoted over the previous few years.
EmpiresX’s two admins have been indicted on prison fees in July 2022. They’ve additionally been sued by the SEC and CFTC.
After EmpiresX Gregory briefly ran his personal Ponzi scheme in Canada. Gregory managed to defraud “at the very least $200,000” from “at the very least 16 buyers”.
Following an inside investigation, in April 2022 the Alberta Securities Fee discovered Gregory had dedicated securities fraud.
In September 2022 the ASC fined Gregory $165,000. Shortly thereafter, Gregory fled Canada for Dubai.
As soon as in Dubai, Gregory teamed up with Russians working out of Dubai and/or Turkey to launch a number of MLM crypto Ponzi schemes.
To date these embody Maxspread Applied sciences (collapsed), CoinMarketBull (collapsed), Vortic United, CloudFI and SureX.
California’s Division of Monetary Safety and Innovation issued a Maxpread Applied sciences securities fraud stop and desist on April nineteenth.
Whether or not there’s a wider US investigation into Gregory’s Ponzi schemes is unclear.
In fining Gregory for securities fraud, the ASC famous
Cerato poses a big danger to buyers and the capital market, and … that he “accepted little or no accountability or remorse and as a substitute blamed others and exhibited contempt in direction of those that have been harmed by his actions.”
Within the face of loss of life threats from scammers, BehindMLM stays dedicated to researching and reporting within the pursuits of shopper safety.
Replace twenty second June 2023 – Gregory has additionally issued a public loss of life menace on FaceBook:
The above submit was made on Gregory’s private FaceBook web page on June twenty second, 2023.