Word on the grapevine is critical discussion of Lyoness in several European countries has recently disappeared.

It began with the removal of a discussion thread on Radar, one of the largest consumer information forums in the Netherlands.

The Lyoness discussion thread on Radar had grown to about 800 to 1000 posts before it was deleted without warning or explanation.

One BehindMLM reader reached out for an explanation and was told;

Their webteam claims that the moderators have removed the entry due to it containing outdated information.

But given that half of the forum consists of topics both started and ended in the early 2000s, and about companies/rackets that no longer exist (sometimes over a decade), this is obviously bullshit.

Meanwhile in Germany the Verbraucherrunde consumer protection forum, which contained “thousands of critical posts on Lyoness”, has gone offline.

Although general in nature, Lyoness was the primary topic discussed on the forum. If one punches “verbraucherrunde” into Google for example, the sole suggestion that comes up is “verbraucherrunde lyoness”.

Why Verbaucherrunde shut down is unclear.

Meanwhile on Wikipedia, “LyonessGroup” has been trying to censor information pertaining to recent court judgement against Lyoness.

Under the guise of removing news of judgments due to “missing citation of sources”, LyonessGroup deleted reference to recent judgments against it in Austria and Switzerland.

LyonessGroup’s edits were quickly reverted, as the judgment numbers were included in the original updates.

The latest updates from Wikipedia user “Der Investigator” state;

The Bezirksgericht (District Court) of Innsbruck, Austria, has decided on July 14, 2017 in its judgment 26 C 609/16k – 17 that the business model of Lyoness Europe AG, Buchs, Switzerland, is to be considered as an unfair pyramid scheme within the meaning of Art. Z 14 in attachment to § 2 UWG (Austrian Law against unfair competition).

The verdict of the Bezirksgericht, Innsbruck, was rendered based on legal action taken by a Japanese native woman residing in Austria with no professional income.

The Bezirksgericht (District Court) of Feldkirch, Austria, has decided on June 28, 2017 its its judgment 8 C631/16m – 6 that the business model of Lyoness Europe AG, Buchs, Switzerland, is to be considered as an unfair pyramid scheme within the meaning of Art. Z 14 in attachment to § 2 UWG (Austrian Law against unfair competition).

The verdict of the Bezirksgericht, Feldkirch, was rendered based on legal action taken by an Austrian private individual, who at the time of becoming a Lyoness member, was unemployed.

The Bezirksgericht (District Court) of Innsbruck, Austria, has decided on July 12, 2017 its judgement 26C 610/16g-15 that the business model of Lyoness Europe AG, Buchs, Switzerland, is to be considered as an unfair pyramid scheme within the meaning of Art. Z 14 in attachment to § 2 UWG (Austrian Law against unfair competition).

The verdict of the Bezirksgericht, Innsbruck, was rendered based on legal action taken by an Austrian insurance broker.

This isn’t the first time Lyoness has been caught out vandalizing their Wikipedia page. Lyoness and their affiliates have been trying to scrub the page of factual reporting of Lyoness’ regulatory issues since 2013.