Roman Ziemian has been added to BehindMLM’s DMCA Wall of Disgrace.
Ziemian, a needed fugitive and co-founder of the collapsed FutureNet Ponzi scheme, seems to be attempting to cover reporting on his felony exercise.
Ziemian, or somebody appearing on Zieman’s behalf, filed two bogus DMCA takedown notices in opposition to BehindMLM. The primary discover was acquired on June 18th, 2024. The second discover was acquired on July 14th, 2024.
The methodology behind the 2 bogus notices was the identical; copy and paste content material stolen from BehindMLM right into a newly created Tumblr weblog, and attempt to move it off as authentic content material.
Upon receiving Zieman’s DMCA notices, BehindMLM contacted Tumblr. Tumblr promptly took down the stolen content material and disabled the account used to host it.
This left Zieman’s bogus DMCA notices useless within the water and that was that.
The article Zieman focused was BehindMLM’s protection of Zieman’s arrest in Italy, printed on November 1st, 2022.
The backstory behind Zieman’s arrest pertains to his co-founding of FutureNet, a collapsed MLM crypto Ponzi scheme.
As of August 2024 Ziemian is believed to have returned to Dubai. Ziemian and Morgenstern relocated to Dubai throughout FutureNet’s many collapses.
Ziemian returning to his native Poland isn’t an possibility, owing to a long-running felony investigation by Polish authorities.
Stephan Morgenstern’s spouse Anna was criminally charged with cash laundering by Albanian authorities in April 2024. Anna is believed to be hiding out in Dubai.
Albanian authorities authorized Morgenstern’s extradition to South Korea in March 2024. There have been no additional updates since.
The South Korean FutureNet Ponzi case alleges Ziemian and Morgenstern stole over 160 billion South Korean received by the Ponzi scheme (~$117 million USD).
US courts have upheld that DMCA notices issued with out consideration of truthful use are despatched in unhealthy religion.
Underneath the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, this constitutes perjury and leaves the filer open to being sued for damages.
The precise intent behind Zieman’s bogus DMCA notices was to suppress BehindMLM’s ongoing reporting of Zieman’s felony conduct.
A Google seek for “Roman Ziemian” reveals a bunch of search engine optimisation engineered advertising and marketing fluff, once more with the goal of suppressing reporting of Ziemian’s felony conduct and arrest.
Because of Zieman’s bogus DMCA notices and consistent with BehindMLM’s DMCA Coverage, at the moment we’re including Zieman to our DMCA Wall of Disgrace.