Steven Seagal fronts Skyway Capital, goes on Illuminati aliens rant
Desperate for a distraction after their Dubai ruse collapsed, Skyway Capital has signed Steven Seagal on for a celebrity endorsement.
Seagal appears in a recently uploaded marketing video, that appears to have been shot at Skyway Capital’s Belarus compound.
Not surprisingly, much of what Seagal has to say has nothing to do with Skyway Capital’s fraudulent investment scheme.
Seagal begins by boasting about “three very special wooden homes” he’s built.
He then states he’s “tried to live like this”, presumably in reference to Skyway Capital’s Belarus compound.
[0:53] Most of what you’re eating here, almost all of what you’re eating here is from your gardens.
This is how, y’know my wife and I, this is how we want to live. This is our dream, and it’s the dream of y’know most of my children and our children.
We believe in this kind of a lifestyle.
If you’re confused as to what any of that has to do with Skyway Capital’s fraudulent investment scheme, you’re not alone.
In what appears to be a loosely scripted rant, Seagal claims there are “engines that will run on water” and Nikola Tesla inventing “global free energy”.
Seagal claims these “zero energy technologies” have
[2:03] suppressed by y’know, certain groups that are big business and beyond big business.
And we also have, y’know, sort of um, non-human technology that we possess uh, in these, y’know, higher echelons… that y’know, could really change the world.
As far as we know nobody actually lives on Skyway Capital’s Belarus compound.
Like Dubai up until recently, Skyway Capital has a site in Belarus where they’ve built a mock transport system demo.
Beyond serving as a backdrop for Skyway Capital promo videos, like the one Seagal features in, the compound has nothing to do with Skyway’s investment opportunity.
Skyway Capital isn’t Seagal’s first endorsement of an MLM Ponzi scheme.
In early 2018 Seagal was appointed Brand Ambassador of Bitcoiin.
“I endorse this opportunity wholeheartedly,” Mr. Seagal told the participants at a recent meeting in B2g’s executive offices in Asia.
“I am excited about the management, and especially about the secure blockchain, underlying mining technology, and safeguards.”
Bitcoiin collapsed just over a month after Seagal’s endorsement, causing an estimated $75 million in investor losses.
As with Bitcoiin, how much Seagal has received for appearing in a Skyway Capital promotional video is unclear.
Skyway Capital’s latest ruse has seen affiliates invest thousands in worthless CryptoUnits, on the promise of an advertised 41,281% ROI.
CryptoUnits, along with earlier investment opportunities launched by Skyway Capital, has only lead to more investor losses.
Update 20th August 2022 – Steven Seagal’s Skyway Ponzi promo video has been marked private.
This article originally contained a link to the video but I’ve now disabled it.
small mistake in the review: “As with Bitcoiin, how much Skyway Capital has received for appearing in a Skyway Capital promotional video is unclear.”
OZ:
Bold part should be replaced with “Steven Segal”, huh? 😉
Anyway, I wonder in how deep shit S.Segal must have (financially) fallen to participate in this garbage.
Ah yeh, thanks guys. Illuminati sabotage.
Oz, you should not remove your aluminium cap. Never! 😉
Segal’s last words:
(note Segal’s grin after this catchworld – it looks to me like nonverbal message: “We’re done! And now I’ve pocketed some of your funds, idiots!)
Of course, the whole Segal’s speech (probably based on pre-prepared script) is very vague, empty blah blah.
Sounds like he took their money and was careful not to make a direct endorsement LOL..
In response to engines that run on water… Yeah it’s possible in theory.
I almost blew my face off testing out the explosive nature of water split by electrolysis. Problem is that the energy required to split water into H2 and O2 greater than the energy produced by combusting the H2 and O2.
Segal is still pretty quacky himself tho hahahha!
On top of being a chronic narcissistic liar. Did you see the Joe Rogan show on Segal? Joe made a joke out of him basically lol
Wow surely the end must be near now if Skyway are desperate enough to pull stunts like this involving someone of the reputation of Seagal?
Who is the next endorser? Bernie Madoff?
It seems to me inaccurate to present SkyWay Capital as the primary figure behind the SkyWay empire. It’s just a fund raising company.
The actual mother company, or at least the only one with official registration at a central location in an office complex in Minsk, is called ‘Strunnye Technologii’ ZAO which I think some SkyWay Network Marketers translate to ‘String Technologies Co’ despite the fact that this company is registered nowhere in the world.
The cluster of companies associated with Khovratov known as SWIG also raise money for the SkyWay project. You’d probably be better to chose a term which refers in general to this group of companies like ‘String Technologies Companies’ ‘the SkyWay Group’ or simply ‘SkyWay’. Referring to the whole SkyWay venture as ‘SkyWay Capital’ seems to me misleading.
The Belarusian test site in Marjina Horka was not actually built by ‘SkyWay Capital’; Kudryashov’s company just promotes investment in other countries like Belgium and the Netherlands.
Maybe SkyWay Capital employed Steven Seagal? I don’t think so. The promotion team of Network Marketers like Michael Kirichenko who are pictured in the photo with Seagal works for the SkyWay mother company and are further unconnected to SkyWay Capital.
It’s all the same company.
*SkyWay Capital, a company registered in Saint Lucia with a postal address in London, directed by Evgenii Kudryashov, also has nothing to do with the negotiations in the United Arab Emirates. ‘SkyWay Greentech Company’ signed the MoU with the RTA and Skyway Technologies Co. negotiated with a private company in Sharjah. Neither of these companies could be correctly called ‘SkyWay Capital’. Pare the companies back and you’ll find the same figureheads supporting the same pyramid scheme. But you’d better chose a name which doesn’t specify the activities of one of the shell companies above the others.
Oz there is no argument about this not all being the same company. But ‘SkyWay Capital’ is just a shell company further unconnected to the actual activities discussed in this article: the employment of Seagal or the dissolution of the Dubai ruse. To avoid misleading people you’d probably better chose a term which refers more generally to the activities of the mother company – which is not called ‘SkyWay Capital’.
Actors are just people who are paid in their professional capacity to pretend. It’s just unfortunate that that it’s precisely these people (celebrities) who lend legitimacy to projects they are paid to promote.
It’s even more unfortunate we live in a world where celebrities themselves are revealed to be the snake-oil salespeople:
Just look at Gwyneth Paltrow an actress who promotes a product range supported by pseudo-science (‘Goop’), Alex Jones the click-bait king of Info Wars who sells dubious and unregulated food supplements and the reality television star who became the President of the United States but who is well-known for making money from exploiting scams like Trump University and MLM companies like the American Communications Network (ACN) among others.
We should probably know better than to allow unqualified people to influence our decisions on subjects they know little to nothing about. But still we do: we even elect them into positions of considerable political power.
[nolink://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/07/25/judge-rules-trump-can-be-sued-for-marketing-scheme-fraud/]
In today’s world Steven Seagal just seems like a good investment for a company which seeks every opportunity to promote its pyramid scheme with unsupported misinformation. His rant may sound ridiculous, but it’s actually an entirely legal form of marketing.
You don’t actually have to believe what he says is true for his association with the project to automatically lend it credibility, at least for the already converted.
We’re perfectly happy to watch someone we know is an actor say he’s a dentist and that he recommends a toothbrush. A person pretending to be a professional, however, has about as much value as an actual celebrity who makes stuff up about a subject he has no actual knowledge: absolutely none.
An aura of legitimacy is not intended to convince individual people but shift the register of opinion and obfuscate actual scientific research in a sea of misinformation.
I read with great interest the previous association of Seagal with crypto scams. It seems that these types of people will do anything for money.
SkyWay is SkyWay is SkyWay. Given the Byzantine number of shell companies and different names used by SkyWay, those of us on the outside need a name that refers to the whole scam.
SkyWay Capital is as good as any and remains so even if they have started calling themselves SWIG or whatever.
Any scammer who tries to use the “you called it Shell Company A but it was Shell Company B who did that”, aka the bad potato defence, should be responded to with “doesn’t matter, nobody cares”.
Steven Seagal is not just a celebrity endorsement but an intelligence filter.
An example of an intelligence filter is the deliberately comic bad English used by Nigerian prince scammers.
English is an official language of Nigeria and Nigerian scammers speak it as well as any other averagely intelligent person.
An intelligence filter ensures that intelligent people immediately spot the scam and move on. Scammers don’t want to waste their time with people who are too intelligent to ever call for it.
It’s one thing to get a random washed up actor to endorse your scheme, but to use one who has already promoted another Ponzi scheme that already collapsed, that makes it an intelligence filter.
SkyWay are deliberately filtering out anyone who is intelligent enough to think “hang on, didn’t this guy promote Bitcoiin which also promised ludicrous returns on investment and also collapsed”.
Saying that the Dubai ruse has ‘collapsed’ is not really accurate either.
From what I can tell, there never really was a Dubai project to speak of. SkyWay just presented its technology at a trade fair where they attracted the interest of Sheikh Mohammed, they signed an MoU in February 2019 with the RTA.
They do seem to have had land pre-allocated for a test site in Sharjah through negotiations with a private company but they’ve postponed the opening date of this site and they’ve not planned another one.
Maybe it would be better to say that their projects in the UAE have been postponed or cancelled until we know more. SkyWay companies like SWIG are still promoting their non-existent project in Dubai and their self-testing initiative in Sharjah.
Thanks to Belbo of the PSIRAM.DE discussion thread for providing the following link for information concerning a Hong Kong architect LWK+Partners who are involved in the design of the Dubai infrastructure project.
Although this article doesn’t actually mention SkyWay or skyTran by name but it does include the same set of facts that appear to be copied from SkyWay promotion (8400 passengers per hour) and includes copies of what appear to be both skyTran AND SkyWay designs.
[middleeastarchitect.com/43703-new-skypods-designed-by-lwkpartners-planned-for-dubai]
Thanks to Mr Czech for the following link to a relatively unknown public transport publication which doesn’t really either confirm or deny the possibility of SkyWay actually being built in Dubai.
Note that this article claims that vehicles can travel at 600 km/hour and 50,000 passengers per hour. This seems even more ridiculous than usual. Most sources have reduced these parameters.
[nolink://urban-transport-magazine.com/en/an-innovative-skyway-transportation-system-for-dubai/]
Sorry for including these links again, but it seemed important since this seems to be relevant to the present discussion and no one reacted to them in the last discussion thread.
Any informed reaction to what is actually going on in the UAE at present appreciated, including your thoughts about these most recent articles which involve the Dubai project.
In any case, neither of these articles suggests that the Dubai project has been shelved (yet).
@Malthusian – SkyWay can be pared back to the same set of fraudsters like Khudrashov and Khovratov who have a history in internet scams.
It’s probably better to refer to the whole investment scam as simply ‘SkyWay’ only because the SkyWay Capital project is specific to individual countries for the promotion of CLNs whereas SWIG is currently selling CRUs in other places.
If you just refer to the company as SkyWay you won’t confuse anyone.
Please refer to post #168 on the last discussion thread for a detailed discussion of the activities specific to these companies which function as fund raisers.
I love the intelligence filter reference!
The same CGI mockups that we’ve seen for years and a German transport blog set up in late November 2018? Cmon now…
Good point! 😉
You made my day!
Rose is the rose and SkyWay is SkyWay. No need to argue about shell companies names.
Anyway – video was published on SkyWay Capital site.
So right about the intelligence filter.
Very little about this Seagal “endorsement” on Twitter yet. Hopefully this will be dead and buried soon.
The intention is to clear up any ambiguity about use of the term ‘SkyWay Capital’. Here it is used to refer to the often illegal activities of the SkyWay group of companies and any of their subsidiaries.
The term ‘SkyWay Capital’ has been used on BehindMLM articles about SkyWay to refer generally to any of the activities performed by this group of companies run from a central location in Minsk, Belarus with a wide variety of shell companies registered at offshore locations.
The mother company is called ZAO “Strunnye Technologii” [CJSC “String Technologies” – which they often translate just to “String Technologies Co.”].
The functions performed by the wide range of shell companies include making publicity, raising funds, promoting their unregistered investment products on the internet, building demonstration models and presenting them at international trade fairs and at the EcoTechnoPark in Marjina Horka, Belarus as well as defending their intellectual property and its inventor in court.
These shell company names include Euroasian Rail Skyway Systems Holdings Ltd. (ERSSH) in BVI, Global Transport Investments (GTI) in BVI, First Skyway Invest Group Ltd. (London), SkyWay Capital Inc (SWC) in Saint Lucia, and an imaginary conglomerate of companies referred to as SWIG.
In this sense ‘SkyWay Capital’ is a general term used to refer to a wide range of questionable business practices adopted by this company. Possible synonyms would include ‘SkyWay Group of companies’ or simply ‘SkyWay’.
This could create confusion, because ‘SkyWay Capital’ is also a name that a fund-raising company has used to refer to itself on its websites. It has been particularly active in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Initially a shell company was set up called “First Skyway Invest Group Limited” (FSIG) and based at a postal address in London. Evgenii Kudriashov became its director on November 28, 2014. This company is still associated with the activities of SkyWay Capital.
[companies house registration: nolink://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09320759]
In the Belgian (FSMA) and New Zealand (FMA) regulatory warnings they refer to ‘SkyWay Capital’ as the business name used on their press releases referring to the activities of this company. Here is an excerpt from the Belgian warning which specifies this relationship:
[(https)://www.fsma.be/en/warnings/first-skyway-invest-group-limited-skyway-capital-0]
There is also another company registered in Saint Lucia which also uses this name. The company is called “Sky Way Capital Inc.”
[(https)://www.pinnaclestlucia.com/registry/searchname_match.jsp]
The German financial regulatory agency BaFin has released a prohibition directed at this company in Germany. It should also be noted that this regulation is also now official (bestandskräftig].
“The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has prohibited the public offering of investment in the form of shares which grant an investment in the result of a company by investment of 14 May 2019 of Sky Way Capital Inc. in Germany… This measure is legally valid.”
[(https)://www.bafin.de/SharedDocs/Veroeffentlichungen/DE/Verbrauchermitteilung/weitere/2019/meldung_190611_Sky_Way_Capital_Inc.htm]
This company was also included in the CONSOB warnings and prohibitions.
To avoid confusion, if you want to talk about the activities of the SkyWay Capital operation in countries like Belgium, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, specifically the illegal sale of unregistered CLNs or other investment products to European citizens and the warnings and prohibitions that have been released about them, use the complete or reduced company name, i.e. FSIG Limited (London), SWC Inc (Saint Lucia).
As Guest Speakers still organise motivated sales and recruitment meetings for ‘SkyWay Capital’ in Belgium and the Netherlands, perhaps it would be better to use a term like SWC Belgium.
I’m good with “Skyway Capital”.
@Mr Czech – the Seagal article was actually posted to the SkyWay general website which represents the mother company (rsw and not SkyWay Capital (SWC-FSIG). The YouTube site is for SkyWay.
I went to the SkyWay Capital website (it is here [https]://skyway-capital.com/) and they posted information about it as well.
Kudriashov, the director of SkyWay Capital (FSIG), however, did not participate in this film.
I’m not trying to give credit to a shell company which is operated from the same central location, just the tools so that there is no confusion about which ‘SkyWay Capital’ is specifically being referred to and a method to avoid confusion referring to specific aspects of SkyWay investment.
What do you thin of my suggestion? It helps explain the use of the term ‘SkyWay Capital’ in these articles as a more general term and suggests more specific terms for the activities of individual shell companies which targets specific countries.
SWIG sees to be the most active and aggressive “fundraising” arm of Skyway. I have sent a report of my suspicions and all information I could accumulate to both the New Zealand and Australia authorities.
Seems that people are all sending in a few thousand each so will not be huge losses and the whole thing will just be brushed under the carpet as “bad luck” once it collapses in a few years.Is that how you see things?
OZ – I know you’re good with SkyWay Capital as a general term and I’m happy with your decision.
I’m just suggesting an alternative if anyone wants to refer to more specific aspects of the fund-raiser company which shares the same name or to the regulatory warnings and/or prohibitions about these specific companies to avoid confusion in the future.
All good. S’long as I don’t have to keep track of the umpteenth companies Skyway Capital has set up to scam people through 😀
@Michael Todd – SWIG does seem the most active fund raiser at present, certainly in Australia and New Zealand although they regularly send Guest Speakers from these countries (and Europe) to recruitment events in Fiji, Ghana and Ethiopia (among many others).
For a sham investment company based on a financial pyramid, you’d think it would fall in on itself. They seem, however, to be extending their operations further around the world.
Why however? Pyramids collapse when they run out of new suckers (unless they can kick liabilities off the bottom of the pyramid).
Skyway is currently finding new suckers around the world in financial centres like Ethiopia. There’s no contradiction.
When they run out of new suckers and dirt poor shitholes to find them in, Skyway will collapse.
@Malthusian – I agree. One would hope that this will happen soon.
It’s really sad that they have extended their operations to countries more easily convinced by their routine about ‘SkyWay Capital’ saving the governments money by promoting their projects to local and international investors.
Free of charge are things like feasibility studies, and signing investment agreements and MoUs with local universities, businesses and government with vague promises about scholarships, collaboration and the technology being tried out in their own country free of any costs to the government.
They move in and begin operations, negotiating around the country, taking lots of photos to publish on their promotional site and canvassing investment from locals. They do it again and agaain; the same stories have been documented in so many countries it seems quite an extensive operation.
I read somewhere in an article that SkyWay was the longest running international Belarusian scam that is still in existence. Is this actually true?