Josip Heit has stepped from from GSB Gold Commonplace Company’s board of executives.
In Heit’s place is Rustam Shoykhet, a reputation most members in GSB’s funding schemes have doubtless by no means heard of.
Heit, a convicted fraudster, took nice pains to continually remind individuals he was “Chairman of the Board”.
That largely ended when Heit withdrew from public appearances round 2023.
Heit eliminated himself from GSB’s board on December 4th, 2024. Shoykhet was appointed the identical day.
Along with GSB, Heit additionally beforehand deserted GSB’s UK shell firms in mid 2024.
So who’s Heit’s GSB substitute, Rustam Hagen Shoykhet?
Shoykhet is a long-time affiliate of Heit’s. He’s recognized him for years however largely retains a low public profile.
Shoykhet, aka “Black Ruwen”, describes himself as “satan in head” with a “loopy way of life”.
Whereas his personal social media is locked down, Shoyket makes common appearances on his associates’ accounts.
I’ll depart it as much as your creativeness as to why Shoyket prefers to lurk within the shadows.
As to why Josip Heit deserted GSB, maybe he’s moved onto different issues.
Along with GSB adjoining funding schemes Billionico and Auratus Gold, BehindMLM not too long ago reviewed DAO1.
DAO1 seems to be an try and commit securities and commodities fraud, while concealing now apparent ties to GSB.
Along with clearly being put collectively by German-speakers, DAO1 shares the identical custom-made web site template as Billionico and Auratus Gold.
Billionico and Auratus Gold are successfully useless within the water following a number of regulatory fraud warnings (Texas, Australia, New Zealand).
What’s left of Billionico’s and Auratus Gold’s promoters, quite a lot of whom are primarily based out of Australia, have additionally moved onto DAO1.
Heading up the advertising facet of DAO1 is Dennis Loos, an Austrian serial MLM Ponzi promoter primarily based out of Dubai (click on to enlarge):
GSB’s demise ties into US and Canadian regulators concentrating on GSPartners and Heit in 2023.
GSPartners was a fraudulent funding scheme regulators have accused of defrauding customers out of over a billion {dollars}.
Reasonably than clear his identify, Heit opted to settle fraud allegations with North American regulators in September 2024.
As a part of the settlement settlement, which can see Heit admit he “illegally supplied and/or bought securities”, GSPartners victims in North America are to be refunded.
To that finish AlixPartners, a mutually agreed on administrative third-party, arrange a GSB settlement web site. 5 months later nevertheless, there was no additional communication to GSPartners victims.
AlixPartners initially scheduled a sufferer declare portal going reside in early November. This was then ultimately pushed again to the top of 2024.
Someday in the previous few days of December 2024, the sufferer claims portal hyperlink was amended to only “coming quickly”.
BehindMLM has reached out to each AlixPartners and our contacts in US regulation enforcement to request an replace we will share.
We would not get one, given the possibly delicate nature of proceedings. If we do hear something subsequent week I’ll depart an replace under.