Auratus Gold holding Oct 2024 promo events in QLD, AU
What’s left of GSPartners spinoff Auratus Gold is gearing up to hold two marketing promo events in Queensland, Australia this weekend.
The events, which will no doubt be used to market Auratus Gold to Australians, follow two Auratus Gold specific fraud warnings issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
A social media post from GSPartners owner Josip Heit suggests he touched down in Brisbane, Queensland earlier this week.
BehindMLM readers have confirmed Auratus Gold will hold a promo event at the Yot Club on Thursday, October 17th.
On its website Yot Club markets “full venue hire” on “Gold Coast & Brisbane’s iconic entertainment vessel”.
Auratus Gold’s Yot Club event will be followed up by a “Wealth Odyssey Seminar and Gala”, to be held at Sea World on the Gold Coast on Saturday, October 19th.
On its website Sea World markets bookable “bespoke experiences”:
Sea World in Australia is owned by the Village Roadshow Group, dba Village Roadshow Theme Parks.
Auratus Gold’s Yot Club event appears to be non-public but the company is otherwise charging $398 for access to the Sea World events (click to enlarge):
ASIC issued its first Auratus Gold fraud warning on August 2024. The financial regulator warned despite Auratus Gold was “likely to be offering financial services to Australian consumers” despite not being registered to do so.
Offering securities without registration with ASIC constitutes securities fraud under Australian law.
ASIC issued a second warning on September 11th, pertaining to Auratus Gold’s abandoned “digital gold vaults” investment scheme.
A GSPartners fraud warning was issued by ASIC in November 2023.
Citing an uptick in local promotion, neighboring New Zealand also issued an Auratus Gold securities fraud warning in September 2024.
GSPartners and Josip Heit recently settled securities fraud charges across North America. As part of the settlement, GSPartners and Heit are required to “return the full amount of all monies and/or cryptocurrencies invested or deposited with GSB Group, GS Partners and its affiliates”.
GSB Group is a German parent company Heit runs his various investment schemes through.
The second part of the GSPartners settlement kicks in after refunds for GSPartners victims in North America have been secured.
Under the terms of the second part of the GSPartners settlement;
GSB Group and Mr. Heit will consent to the entry of an enforcement order that concludes they illegally offered and/or sold securities that were not registered pursuant to state law.
The Texas State Securities Board cited Auratus in an April 2024 securities fraud enforcement action targeting Billionico. Billionico is yet another GSPartners adjacent scheme tied to GSB Group and Heit.
It’s likely that Auratus Gold’s bookings with Yot Club and Sea World were made under unassuming names with no mention or reference to GSB Group, Auratus Gold or Heit.
Nonetheless if Auratus Gold’s planned events go ahead, Yot Club and Sea World will play central roles in hosting efforts to further defraud Australian consumers despite ASIC’s Auratus Gold fraud warnings.
BehindMLM has reached out to Yot Club and Sea World for comment.
Ooh just around the corner, now how do I convince my family I need a day off from holidaying to go spy?
Oh Oz, I do love that you reached out to Sea World and Yot Club for comment. You absolute star!!
They’re still advertising $10 tickets for a seminar on Friday night as well. 6.30pm to 8.30pm at Seaworld Resort Conference Centre.
Looks like Dirczahlmann is flying in too.
I hope local GSPartners victims turn up and ask where their money is.
Has there been any comment back from YOT club or Sea World at this stage?
No reply yet. Added some additional promo photos to the article as evidence.
I do hope some media turn up and ask some questions.
A promise was made on atleast one of the calls on Friday that some promotional documentation was to be released “within 48 hours” that their investors could share.
It seemed likely to be some form of official press pack based upon what was discussed. I assume no one has seen this yet?
Martene Wallace is the top promoter in Australia and organising the event!
lmao at a press pack. Josip feeds them BS to see how much they’ll swallow. Such a jolly joker.
Alongside the Seaworld sharks.
We’re joined by industry experts, aka international financial fraudsters, to discuss wealth diversification solutions.
Only in Australia.
Imagine if Josip Heit, Dirc Zahlmann and Bruce Hughes attend. Someone has to go and get photos. TSSB will facepalm.
@AU – Bruce is already en route to Brisbane. Posted an image on his FB account about it a moment ago.
Bruce is now toddling along Brisbane running. This is such a phenomenal opportunity for the Australian authorities to show their metal and apprehend this legion of doom. To get Josip Heit, Dirc Dahlmann, Bruce Hughes and gang apprehended at Sea World would be something I previously thought could only happen in my wildest dreams. Why not let their trip to Australia be much longer than they anticipated?
@curius possum – one would assume they are all on the correct visa (business visitor stream subclass 600) and adhere to Australia’s strict character requirements.
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-support/meeting-our-requirements/character
Now if only there was a fraud warning already issued by an Australian authority that someone could tip off the dept of home affairs/immigration about.
Hell, one could include the GSPartners warnings from Australia and the C&D orders from the states to show history and intent.
@Concerned Remembering the Jurarnji article too:
immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-support/meeting-our-requirements/character
@AU that would be awesome
Josip Heit just posted in Dubai with the caption “I use my haters as my motivators”. did he get deported or was he not intending to show up at sea word to feed the dolphins?
@Curious possum – how curious… my guess is it may be a reaction to comments above. He has a second post that clearly shows the time and date.
I don’t see his watch (which he always posts when taking photos like this in his car), maybe he got a friend to take the photo?
@ Josip Heit – did you sell the watch to help with the refunds?
My mistake, I see he is in the video and his watch. But did anyone else notice his “check engine” light is on?
Content up from Yot Club event on Martene Wallace’s story: instagram.com/stories/martenewallace/
I’ve been looking for the warriors.
Maybe they were all sent home.
Maybe Josip didn’t make it past border control?
Interesting to watch the insta reels of a few key promoters, obvious that the follow on leadership from GSP to Auratus are well looked after, potentially in lieu of a GSP settlement?
Also interesting one monologue showing gratitude for “team members” who had to pay up for flights, accom, tickets, makeup, hair etc, “showing their commitment to the community.” Easy to say when all your bills have been paid from HQ…
If Heit is back in Dubai something has gone wrong. This was quite obviously supposed to be a marketing rahrah weekend.
@Au – I spotted Bruce in the background of one of Martenes’s posts.
Interestingly, Bruce only posts pictures of himself running and working out, nothing of the event. It’s as if he doesn’t want anyone else to have evidence he was there for some reason…
Yep, Bruce Hughes, Dirc Zahlmann, and Annie Starky were all there but seemed to be keeping a relatively low profile, still a few photos taken with them though.
Who was it that said this?
@Concerned – I think I’ve found them now- both fully clothed fortunately.
I heard mention of a morning, meet and greet, with the new legal team too.
The hairdressing, makeup and multiple photoshoots are all part of the brand image for wealth I guess. The same poses, fake laughter wide mouth and tongue out are a bit cringe.
@AU – “brand image”. I wonder how they strike balance with using their likeness to aid in selling and giving “assurance” for the product while still trying to keep the ownership of Auratus anonymous and images of their involvement out of the public space…
“Legal Team” why do they need that?
Did you manage to find an image of Dirc there?
@Oz are you able to include any of these images in the post above so that it can be linked to the Australian Authorities?
With his criminal conviction in Luxembourg for financial fraud, how in the world could he travel to Australia? How could he go back to Dubai too? Unless of course he is hiding out in Dubai avoiding extradition to Luxembourg for his sentencing. Something is not adding up here.
Heit was sentenced to prison in Luxembourg sometime prior to 2012. He was released that year.
Huh, what post?
@Oz, Sorry – I meant in this article. Martene Wallace has a few videos that show both Bruce and Dirc in the background.
Based on the videos its likely that the Yot Club (and potentially tomorrows event) was/is booked under her brand/team name “Wealth Odyssey”
Oh. I didn’t see anything significant in the posts. GSB executives in hiding…
@Lynn – it’s incredible difficult to find anything on his conviction online. The only way the border authorities would find out is if they contact the Luxembourgers or if Interpol was looking into him. You possibly find that the VISA would be based upon a disclosure by Heit (if he even flew to Aus in the first place).
Josip was in Monaco (and likely France to use the airport), Croatia and Romania in September. Im pretty sure all of those countries have extradition treaties?
Unfortunately I was taken in by GSPro and thankfully only out of pocket a small amount but have a number of friends that have invested substantial money and now also caught up with Auratus and totally convinced that Behind MLM are going to jail and that Josep has been totally exonerated.
I really don’t know what to believe to be honest. So many friends currrnyly on the Gold Coast and I am seriously concerned for them.
Belief doesn’t factor into it. You can verify Auratus and GSPartners are/were committing securities fraud in Australia by way of ASIC’s warnings.
Between the securities fraud and prison, one of these you can verify. The other is fantasy.
It’s quite clear judging from the instagram stories that Dirc, Bruce, and the “inner circle” are careful enough to not post too much. It seems that Martene Wallace is the one doing all the posting.
Seems to have more of a risk-taking attitude or is generally too stupid to be cautious. Interesting that her Facebook shows her as having travelled to Croatia, Romania, South Africa, and Dubai too.
In the pyramid, Martene sits under Andrew Eaton! They go back a decade! Andrew Eaton was in Aussie earlier this year planning the event with Martene.
I wonder then if Andrew Eaton will be attending the AUS event. He has been very quiet for a long while now, because of all the heat GSP has been getting in South Africa.
Those on the highest level of the pyramid are probably more cautious now and they’re using those under them as their lackey’s and to be the “face” of certain events. That way if they are rolled on by law enforcement the uplines are not immediately prosecuted.
Karatbars and GS partners, and the various spin-offs and relaunches, were and are illegal pyramid selling, Ponzi scams.
Josip “Heit” is a serial fraudster with connections to Romanian Mafia.
None of the Ponzi scams were registered with Financial Regulators. Therefore, they were all operating illegally.
Your friends are simply hanging onto hope because they do not want to admit they were scammed by a serial scammer.
Martene has been busy busy planning the next events according to her Insta stories.
In the background of this text is a computer screen scrolling pages on what looks like a presentation.
A screen shot: “2024 Dubai Experience. 5-7 December. Immerse in the Billionico opportunity with a big focus on Luxury Homes Real Estate. Tour offices, sites, and immerse with some of the most successful people from multiple industries”.
In another story “people and above average people can start taking advantage of the Dubai property market”. (Side note: it’s low risk and she loves real estate having bought her first house at 21 – hoorah).
Surprised to see the “business” name Billionico on the screen. I’ve not heard much on Billionico and not in Australia. Is it still going in South Africa or doing a fresh round or have I missed it in Australia? Also, curious, where would HQ be located?
HQ is no doubt Josip Heit’s home/legion of doom in Dubai.
A “business meeting” in Dubai where Josip can monitor, photograph and record his puppets as evidence that they’re implicated in the fraud.
Josip has already dropped photographic evidence of several people, including Martene, on his own social media profile. Hayley Battese posted a picture of herself posing with Josip.
For Josip, it must be like shooting fish in a barrel. On the other hand, the children of the promoters will be able to search and see the permanent record of their parents running scams linked to underworld criminals associated with fraud, human trafficking, mafia and arms dealing. That’s the “family legacy”.
Scam the neighbourhood while pooing in your own nest.
@Bella
Billionico is basically Auratus. Different shell companies, different frontmen, you know the drill.
Billionico was what was being promoted in South Africa until the GSPartners arrest. Then everything died.
From the sounds of it the Billionico name is being resurrected among GSPartners’ Auratus promoters in Australia. This is likely due to ASIC’s two Auratus fraud warnings.
The less bright South African crowd are promoting a leaders’ meeting/convention in Cape Town on 9 November. No company name mentioned, but the products that are listed are identical to the Billionico/Auratus offering.
The top guns including Andrew Eaton, Brendon Earp-Jones, etc. have not been promoting publicly, but Neil de Waal has also been posting Insta stories inviting people to contact him for tickets for the Cape Town event.
Luisette Mullin has been doing a countdown to the event on Facebook and sharing promotional videos of herself and the amazing opportunities. Ann Hargreaves has recently started the same.
Nothing screams legitimacy like “we can’t even publicly name our company because the unregistered securities business model is absolutely illegal”.
@Oz
Ah, right got it. And certainly makes sense.
@Aus well they regulatory authority is still investigating them, so I suppose they should rather operate “under the radar”.
It is unfortunate that the regulator moves so slowly.