GSPartners claim portal delayed to “year end” 2024
The GSPartners victim claim portal has been delayed till sometime before the end of 2024.
The GSPartners settlement is being handled by the appointed third-party AlixPartners.
When the GSPartners settlement website went live in September, the claims portal was “expected in early November”. The reason for the delay has not been disclosed.
It is unclear whether AlixPartners is communicating directly with GSPartners victims. BehindMLM reached out to AlixPartners on September 19th, seeking clarification on what victims could claim on. To date we haven’t heard anything back.
Launched in 2020, GSPartners was a fraudulent investment scheme run by GSB. GSB and GSPartners are both owned by Josip Heit (right).
Originally from Europe, Heit is has been primarily based out of Dubai for some years.
Following over a dozen securities fraud warnings and enforcement orders from regulators, GSB reached a settlement with certain North American regulators.
As provided on the GSPartners settlement website as of November 20th, 2024, jurisdictions GSB and GSPartners have settled with are:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Vermont
- Washington State
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Alberta (Canada) and
- British Columbia (Canada)
Under the terms of the settlement, GSB and GSPartners will refund victims who invested anything into its multi-tier investment schemes.
When the claim portal does go live, GSPartners victims will have 90 days to submit a claim.
Then, assuming GSB and GSPartners actually refund victims;
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.
While the GSPartners settlement pertains to state-level alleged fraud, BehindMLM has also previously reported on federal investigations into GSB, GSPartners and Heit.
As is standard for federal US investigations, the ongoing status of the investigations is non-public.
As tracked by SimilarWeb, Auratus Gold’s website traffic plummeted 99.6% month on month Sep to Oct 2024.
SimilarWeb tracked just 122 visits to Auratus Gold’s website for Oct 2024. And this is with the rahrah event in Brisbane.
Although not as drastic, Billionico dropped 78% month on month for the same period (down to ~5200 monthly visits).
So, what is the actual link to file as a victim? thanks.
…? Read the article.
Oops, I guess this is the first kick of the can down the road.
They can’t pay out without new money, so GSPro+ needs to work first and my guess is there is too much heat on them to make the rebrand a success. This is all your fault Oz.
what will happen with victims in other countries like australia?
That’s a question for ASIC. But otherwise at this stage, nothing.
@ GS Non Partner – what date is GSPro+ launching?
A twitter user posted about a meeting between Alex Bodi, Heit, and Ali Hussain. There was also a video to capture this iconic moment in history. Maybe someone can make sense of it – could be another “product” offering for Billionico.
You can find it if you search “Josip Heit” on twitter and filter to the latest posts. It’s the top two.
Also interestingly, there is a bit of chatter about Heit allegedly being the money for a VAT Carousel fraud in europe.
There was a polish YouTuber recently detained for luxury car lotto’s. His YT account also features that famous white buggati. He has been linked to Marcin Kukiełka who is appears to be an associate of both Heit and Bodi. Marcin was apparently detained last year in Germany and is awaiting trial for VAT fraud.
Something about selling luxury cars between Germany and Poland and “claiming” back the unpaid VAT. Heits alleged involvement is that someone has to finance this – and there is a lots of talk that its happening via the money on his “crypto” platforms.
@Oz, if this is of interest to you, I can email you 2 polish blog threads on this topic for some light reading.