GSPartners abandons YouTube harassment lawsuit in US
GSPartners has abandoned its harassment lawsuit against against Chris Saunders.
Saunders own and operates the YouTube channel Grit Grind Gold, which he used to report on and criticize the GSPartners Ponzi scheme.
This attracted the attention of owner Josip Heit and promoters Michael Dalcoe and Antonio (Tony) Euclides Menesis De Gouveia, who filed a harassment lawsuit against Saunders in late 2021.
Heit and the GSPartners Plaintiffs claimed Sunders making videos on the Ponzi scheme constituted defamation.
Heit also took particular offense to Saunders pointing out his role in Karatbars International’s failed KBC Ponzi.
On July 29th GSB Gold Standard Corporation AG, Josip Heit, Michael Dalcoe and Tony De Gouveia filed a stipulation of dismissal.
On July 29, 2022, Defendant Christopher Saunders executed a declaration in connection with the above-captioned matter.
Pursuant to the Saunders’ Declaration, Plaintiffs GSB Gold Standard Corporation AG, Josip Heit, Antonio Euclides Menesis De Gouveia, and Michael Dalcoe, by counsel and with the signature and agreement of counsel for Defendant Christopher Saunders, hereby stipulate to the dismissal without prejudice of all claims in this matter.
The referred to stipulation from Saunders reveals he received
five thousands dollars in bitcoin from Mr. Ovidu Toma in connection with making the Statements and Allegations against Plaintiffs.
Since January 2020, Mr. Ovidu Toma has been providing me with documents and materials (that) corroborate Mr. Harald Seiz’s role in Karatbars’ purported wrongdoing.
“Ovidu Toma” refers to Ovidiu Toma, Karatbars International’s former Chief Technology Officer.
Today Toma heads up CryptoData as CEO. CryptoData sells crypto bro hardware out of Romania.
Getting back to Saunder’s declaration;
I was aware, via first-hand knowledge, of facts and documents that any purported wrongdoing carried out by Karatbars in connection with its Miami crypto bank and the issuance of KBC/KBC tokens was perpetrated by Karatbars’ CEO, Mr. Harald Seiz, and that said wrongdoing was perpetrated before any affiliation between Karatbars and GSB/Mr. Heit.
This is a strange concession to make. Heit was very much the face of Karatbars first foray in to crypto securities fraud.
In an interview dated April 2019, Seiz is introduced as a “big investor and Board Member” of Karatbars International.
At the time Karatbars was shilling a “blockchain phone” in Dubai.
When asked about his statements at the event, and I quote;
You talked about the KBC uh coin. You said it’s possible that it will be 1 kilogram of gold. Is this really possible?
Heit responded;
Yes, of course it’s possible. Nobody think and many people recognize in uh, right time and there with us and they can join us.
We have last week, or before two weeks, we have just market capitalization of about 300 million dollar. And now we have almost one billion.
And still is it not realized mainnet. And when the mainnet will be realized, and this will be very soon, in some of months, I tell you; we will have market capitalization more than 200 billion.
After months of Heit and Seiz pumping up Karatbars’ KBC, the KBC Ponzi coin dumped 62% following July 4th 2019 hype event.
It was Josip Heit, not Harald Seiz, who was sent out to address angry investors and explain the collapse.
KBC continued to dump over the following months and was eventually abandoned. By the end of 2019 Heit had cashed out, left Karatbars and gone on to launch his own Ponzi spinoff, GSPartners.
GSPartners’ Ponzi coins haven’t fared any better than KBC. G999 is being propped up with wash trading, which I believe is slowly draining GSPartners’ other Ponzi coin LYS.
G999 is being wash traded at around $0.002413. LYS continues to drain at $66.78.
The continued failure of G999 and LYS to take off prompted the launch of GEUR earlier this month.
GSPartners and Heit represent GEUR is pegged to the euro. It is believed GEUR was created because GSPartners investors didn’t want to be left bagholding G999 and LYS anymore.
At time of publication GEUR doesn’t exist outside of GSPartners. GSPartners is using GEUR to prop up its latest 300% ROI Ponzi reboot, metaverse certificates.
Such to the extent a settlement was reached between GSPartners and Saunders, it has not been made public.
Other than incorrectly asserting Heit wasn’t involved in Karatbars KBC scam, Saunders has not retracted any of his other GSPartners related claims.
The GSPartners Plaintiff’s Stipulation of Dismissal was approved by the court on August 2nd. This brings GSPartner’s harassment suit against Saunders to an end.
Update 4th September 2022 – In what appears to be part of a reached settlement, all of Grit Grind Gold’s social media profiles have been made private.
Additionally, all videos on the Grit Grind Gold YouTube channel have also been marked private.
Ah so at the end of it all Josip didn’t know of all the illegal business under his nose.
Lol, his admitted criminal ineptitude is laughable.
I think Heit’s line of thinking is if Harald Seiz had anything to do with Karatbars’ crypto Ponzi, then he can assert he had no involvement.
Obviously both Seiz and Heit orchestrated Karatbars’ failed transition to crypto fraud. They both profited handsomely on the back end, to the detriment of Karatbars affiliates.
Of the two, Heit was very much the face of Karatbars’ crypto Ponzi scheme. Seiz owned the scam but clearly had NFI about crypto.
He arguably still doesn’t, see: MineBase mess.
Of course, the Karat Bank “storing the gold” and moving them to KBC was the GS bit “chaired’ by Josip.
This is not the victory they were aiming for by any measure.
Well seeing as “the gold” never existed, that’d be another vector of fraud on top of Karatbars’ crypto Ponzi scheme.
Yeah think Seiz was happy just being the Long-con goldking. Josip wanted fast profit and saw Crypto$$$.
It’s fantastic seeing them pivoting every 2nd month to a new “way to earn” while nobody earns shit the other 20 ways.
I have a number of the old Karatbars videos of both Seiz and Heit together.
If Seiz and Heit think they can just rewrite history, they are very much mistaken!
The transition from pyramid selling of shitty “Karatbars” business packages to gold-backed crypto happened when Josip Heit joined the Karatbars scan.
Josip Heit was absolutely instrumental in the launch of the KBC shit-coin.
Josip Heit has also sued the publisher of the Gerlachreport (gerlachreport.com). This screenshot from the web archive shows just two titles published by the Gerlachreport:
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Detailed article of June 25, 2021 in English:
Read on
weltjournal.de/gsb-gold-standard-european-arrest-warrant-obtained-against-rainer-von-holst/
We know that the :gerlachreport also reported extensively on OneCoin. Some information was incorrect, but I have visited the website many times and found suggestions for my own research.
gerlachreport.com is currently no longer available. The last save in the web archive was on November 8, 2021.
web.archive.org/web/20211108231713/https://www.gerlachreport.com/
The Gerlachreport site did more harm than good.
I don’t know what that guy was thinking but it lent many scams legitimacy by allowing them to rightly claim that “paid haters” were behind attacks. Of course then all critics got painted with the same brush.
The guy behind it did offer to take stuff down in return for cash.
Things he obviously made up were that were arrested warrants waiting for OneCoin staff members in Macau, Ruja was in jail in Germany, etc. That Ignatov attempted suicide and was weeping in court are likely made up also.
Does anyone know what happened to the guy behind the site?
@Stevie
Article dated April 26, 2022.
The article also mentions that Rainer von Holst was the secret doer behind the Gerlachreport.
test.de/Firmenwelten-Gruppe-Rainer-von-Holst-in-den-USA-verhaftet-5871864-0/
Josip Heit is not German. He was born in Split (Croatia) and grew up there. The German form of Josip is Josef.
Crime is widespread in all Balkan countries. I spontaneously think of OneCoin scammers like Ruja Ignatova and Petar Kralev (Bulgaria), “Blue Diamond” Cristi Calina (Romania), “Black Diamond” Mihail Petrovic, Igor Krnic and Dusan Torbica (Serbia), Polona Ajdic (Slovenia), etc.
Of course, his website josipheit.com does not contain an imprint or other contact details, but this photo:
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PS: While I was reading the lies on his website, the content was completely removed! My screen is white…
Part of his website as a screenshot:
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@Josip Heit
I welcome you as a reader on BehindMLM!
Where are most MLM scammers hiding? The answer is simple!
share-your-photo.com/d43338373d
twitter.com/Josip_Heit
As Melanie said, Josip Heit is Croatian. He is also best friends with Romanian, Alex Bodi; who is/was being investigated for human trafficking and sexual slavery.
Josip Heit was absolutely instrumental in the KBC shit-coin, which was claimed to be backed by gold bullion. Josip and Harald were interviewed in Hong Kong, where Josip was filmed putting 1 kilo gold bars in a safe.
Josip used Harald Seiz and Karatbars to launch his crypto scams, which he has continued through GSP.
As well as personal financial gain, it is highly probable that Josip Heit is using the Bitcoins from the KBC/G999 scams for money laundering and funding other organised crimes, as crypto is not as traceable as fiet currency.
Like Ruja Ignatova with OneCoin, Josip Heit also has his own “press department” that regularly sends out and publishes his lies in the form of press releases.
Here is an example from June 2022:
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presseportal.de/pm/138064/4635020
Any scammer can spread his lies on press portals because the content is not checked.
My opinion: Anyone who has to advertise with large gold bars in the background has no convincing arguments. This form of advertising is extremely primitive and only reaches stupid and primitive people.
The contact details of his company in Hamburg below the press release:
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A notice! The official headquarters of GSB Gold Standard Corporation AG is in Düsseldorf (North Rhine-Westphalia). Here is the excerpt from the German commercial register from August 31, 2021:
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online-handelsregister.de/handelsregisterauszug/nw/Duesseldorf/HRB/94738/GSB-Gold-Standard-Corporation-AG
@ Melanie
The idea of Rainer von Holst and Konstantin Iganatov being held together, or at least just knowing they’re both being held, is to too amazing to comprehend
Another website by Josip Heit with the address from Hamburg:
share-your-photo.com/aa24c5496d
Article updated to note Grit Grind Gold social media profiles and videos have been marked private.
WOW, I WAS ABOUT TO DO A SMALL INVESTMENT. MY WIFE AND NEVER FELT 100% COMFORTABLE, BUT AFTER READING THIS ARTICLES WE ARE VERY HESITANT TO MAKE ANY INVESTMENT.
PLEASE PROVIDE SOME DIRECT QUESTIONS CAN I ASK TO SEE IF MY INVESTMENT WILL YIELD A RETURN.
You’ll get a return but its in worthless shitcoins – which you can cash out as long as new investors (such as yourself) sign up to lose money.
Go look up the current trading value of G999 and LYS. This is how every MLM crypto Ponzi ends.
The issue isn’t whether you can personally steal money through GSPartners, it’s that GSPartners is a Ponzi scheme committing securities and wire fraud.
Anyone know anything what happened to Grit Grind Gold and Chris Saunders. All content is gone and Chris seems gone.
Details of the settlement were confidential but part of it seems to have been an agreement Saunders would stop creating content on GSPartners.
Beyond that Saunders hasn’t issued any public statements AFAIK.