Salus Global fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information on its website.

Supposedly Salus Global is headed up by CEO “Anton Schmid”, aka Anton Maximilian Emanuel Schmid.

Schmid and Andreas Wituschinski don’t exist outside of Salus Global’s own marketing.

Manuel Leidel and Jimmy Larsen are former Karatbars International promoters:

Karatbars International was a German gold-ruse MLM pyramid scheme turned failed crypto Ponzi run by Harald Seiz.

Laura Catrini married Claudio Catrini in 2019. Claudio Catrini is a former OneCoin Ponzi promoter. In 2022 Catrini emerged as the CEO of the collapsed Gym Network Ponzi scheme.

Of note is Salus Global’s website having an “imprint” section. This is a legal requirement for websites tied to companies in Germany and Austria.

This ties into Salus Global marketing presentations being hosted by individuals with German accents.

Curiously, Salus Global’s imprint website page provides details for Salus Global LTD in Bulgaria. This appears to be a shell company.

Salus Global’s shell company ties to Bulgaria could have something to do with Claudio and Laura Catrini emigrating there in 2021.

While I’m not 100% on Salus Global being a Boris CEO scheme, Schmid not having an executive digital footprint and a Bulgarian shell company are major red flags.

Salus Global’s website domain (“salusglobal.club”), was privately registered on June 18th, 2024. Marketing appears to have kicked off in or around July 2024.

As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.

Salus Global’s Products

Salus Global markets drop supplements, a gold investment scheme and access to a discount travel portal.

Everyday Drops

Salus Global markets a range of six drop supplements of unknown origin:

  • Beaming Youth – “promotes cell rejuvenation”
  • Peak Immunity – “supports your immune system”
  • Smart Energy – “boosts your physical and mental energy”
  • Multivitamin – “fills nutritional gaps and promotes cellular health”
  • D3 Defense – “provides a highly effective form of Vitamin D”
  • KetoX – “supports the body in achieving fitness goals and promotes energy balance”

Note that Salus Global does not provide retail pricing for its drops on its website.

Salus Global marketing suggests the drops come in 20 ml bottles that retail for €46.80 to €82.80 EUR.

Gold Investment Scheme

Salus Global solicits investment into a “switch strategy” scheme;

Rely on value stability proven for centuries. Protect your assets from inflation and crises, and leverage the switch strategy for returns of over 70%,

No specifics are provided.

Discount Travel

Salus Global markets a discount travel portal on its website;

Freedom, adventure, and unlimited possibilities: With the exclusive travel benefits of the Salus Global Club, your dream trip becomes a reality – at prices you’ll love.

Specifics, including costs, are not provided.

Salus Global’s Compensation Plan

Salus Global does not provide consumers with compensation plan details on its website.

The following is put together from an official Salus Global marketing presentation, uploaded to YouTube in November 2024.

Salus Global Affiliate Ranks

There are ten affiliate ranks within Salus Global’s compensation plan.

Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:

  1. Bronze – refer/recruit two retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 50 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  2. Silver – refer/recruit three retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 8000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  3. Gold – refer/recruit four retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 15,000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  4. Emerald – refer/recruit five retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 30,000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  5. Sapphire – refer/recruit six retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 50,000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  6. Ruby – refer/recruit seven retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 200,000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  7. Diamond – refer/recruit eight retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 500,000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  8. Double Diamond – refer/recruit nine retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 1,000,000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  9. Triple Diamond – refer/recruit ten retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 2,000,000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side
  10. Crown Diamond – refer/recruit twelve retail customers and/or affiliates and generate 5,000,000 BV a month on your weaker binary team side

BV stands for “Business Volume” and is sales volume generated by retail and recruited affiliate sales.

Salus Global don’t specifically clarify which sales count towards BV or by how much.

Retail Commissions

Salus Global pays a 20% retail commission.

This is presumably paid out on supplement sales to retail customers. Whether there are corresponded travel and gold investment scheme retail commissions is unclear.

Direct Bonus

Salus Global pays a 10% Direct Bonus on what appears to be purchases by recruited affiliates:

This would equate Salus Global’s Direct Bonus to a recruitment commission.

Fast Start Bonus

Salus Global’s presentation lists a Fast Start Bonus but omits specific details pertaining to the bonus.

Typically MLM Fast Start Bonuses are tied to reaching set sales/recruitment volume quotas over an initial qualifying period.

Residual Commissions

Salus Global pays residual commissions via a binary compensation structure.

A binary compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a binary team, split into two sides (left and right):

The first level of the binary team houses two positions. The second level of the binary team is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).

Subsequent levels of the binary team are generated as required, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.

Positions in the binary team are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of affiliates. Note there is no limit to how deep a binary team can grow.

At the end of each week Salus Global tallies up new sales volume on both sides of the binary team.

Residual commissions are paid as a percentage of every 50 BV matched on both sides of the binary team:

  • Bronze ranked affiliates receive a 10% residual commission rate
  • Silver ranked affiliates receive a 11% residual commission rate
  • Gold ranked affiliates receive a 12% residual commission rate
  • Emerald ranked affiliates receive a 13% residual commission rate
  • Sapphire ranked affiliates receive a 14% residual commission rate
  • Ruby ranked affiliates receive a 15% residual commission rate
  • Diamond ranked affiliates receive a 16% residual commission rate
  • Double Diamond ranked affiliates receive a 17% residual commission rate
  • Triple Diamond ranked affiliates receive a 18% residual commission rate
  • Crown Diamond ranked affiliates receive a 20% residual commission rate

Once paid out on, binary volume is flushed. Any unmatched BV carries over.

Matching Bonus

Salus Global pays a Matching Bonus via a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

Salus Global pays the Matching Bonus according to affiliate rank:

  • Silver ranked affiliates receive a 10% match on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates)
  • Gold ranked affiliates receive a 20% match on level 1 and 10% on level 2
  • Emerald and Sapphire ranked affiliates receive a 20% match on levels 1 and 2 and 10% on level 3
  • Ruby ranked affiliates receive a 20% match on levels 1 and 2 and 10% on levels 3 and 4
  • Diamond ranked affiliates receive a 20% match on levels 1 and 2, 10% on levels 3 and 4 and 5% on levels 5 and 6
  • Double Diamond ranked affiliates receive a 20% match on levels 1 and 2, 10% on levels 3 and 4 and 5% on levels 5 to 8
  • Triple Diamond ranked affiliates receive a 20% match on levels 1 and 2, 10% on levels 3 and 4 and 5% on levels 5 to 10
  • Crown Diamond ranked affiliates receive a 20% match on levels 1 and 2, 10% on levels 3 and 4, 5% on levels 5 to 10 and 1% on level 11 and deeper (capped at €60,000 EUR a month)

Note it is unclear on what specifically Salus Global’s Matching Bonus is paid out on.

Gold Investment Scheme Bonus

Salus Global solicits investment on the promise of “returns of over 70%”.

In addition to direct investment, the following bonus investment amounts are available:

  • sign up at the Gold affiliate tier, invest €12,000 EUR or more and receive a bonus of €600 EUR over 18 months
  • sign up at the Platinum affiliate tier, invest €27,000 EUR or more and receive a bonus of €1200 EUR over 24 months
  • sign up at the Titanium affiliate tier, invest €50,000 EUR or more and receive a bonus €2400 EUR over 36 months

Additional Bonuses

Salus Global’s marketing presentation lists the following additional bonuses:

  1. Upline Matching Bonus
  2. Rank Advancement Bonus
  3. Leadership Pool Bonus
  4. Ambassador Pool Bonus
  5. Lifestyle Travel Bonus
  6. Lifestyle Car Bonus
  7. Extra Position Bonus

Note that no specifics on these bonuses is provided in the presentation.

Joining Salus Global

Salus Global affiliate memberships are split between supplements, travel and its gold investment scheme.

Supplements

  • Bronze – €100 EUR for 1 month of MLM commission qualification (includes €100 EUR product voucher and €50 EUR worth of Travel Points)
  • Silver – €350 EUR for 2 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €350 EUR product voucher and €200 EUR worth of Travel Points)
  • Gold – €700 EUR for 3 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €700 EUR product voucher and €450 EUR worth of Travel Points)
  • Platinum – €1400 for 6 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €1400 EUR product voucher and €1050 EUR worth of Travel Points)
  • Titanium – €2800 EUR for 12 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €2800 EUR product voucher and €2800 EUR worth of Travel Points)

After the above qualification period, maintaining MLM commission qualification costs €49 EUR a month. An annual €50 EUR membership fee also applies.

Each Salus Global supplements and travel affiliate membership comes with a product voucher of equal value to membership fees paid.

Travel points are also included and can presumably be put towards discounted travel.

Travel

  • Bronze – €100 EUR for 1 month of MLM commission qualification (includes €170 EUR worth of travel points)
  • Silver – €350 EUR for 2 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €650 EUR worth of travel points)
  • Gold – €700 EUR for 3 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €650 EUR worth of travel points)
  • Platinum – €1400 EUR for 6 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €3500 EUR worth of travel points)
  • Titanium – €2800 EUR for 12 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €7400 EUR worth of travel points)

Gold Investment Scheme

  • Silver – €350 EUR for 2 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €50 EUR investment)
  • Gold – €700 EUR for 3 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €100 EUR investment)
  • Platinum – €1400 EUR for 6 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €200 EUR investment)
  • Titanium – €2800 EUR for 12 months of MLM commission qualification (includes €400 EUR investment)

Salus Global Conclusion

Salus Global combines three unrelated MLM offerings in a confusing way. This can be simplified into a supplement and discount travel pyramid scheme, attached to purported gold investment securities fraud.

Before we get into specifics as an MLM company Salus Global massively fails basic disclosure requirements. Namely why is a seemingly German/Austrian company being run through a Bulgarian shell company?

Who is Anton Schmid and what is his MLM experience? Ditto the rest of Salus Global’s claimed executives. And finally, why does Salus Global hide pricing and full compensation details from consumers?

That these questions need to be asked is alone reason enough to avoid Salus Global. Then there’s the pyramid scheme and securities fraud.

The supplement and discount travel side of Salus Global is set up as an autoship recruitment scheme. That is you sign up, pay fees and get paid to recruit others who do the same.

The MLM side of Salus Global is locked behind a “pay to play” paywall:

To qualify for the Dual Team Bonus bonus as an influencer, you need to make a personal purchase of 50 BV and each of your teams will need to create purchases of a minimum of 50 BV.

Pay to play is a strong indication an MLM company is operating as a pyramid scheme.

Salus Global claim their purported gold investment scheme is run through the German company Auvesta.

As per Auvesta’s website;

Auvesta has specialized in the purchase, sale and storage of physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium since 2009.

Auvesta is an international company and one of the leading suppliers of precious metals and coins.

I didn’t see anything about a 70% ROI investment scheme on Auvesta’s website, so that appears to be an exclusive Salus Global offering.

Regardless, Salus Global is the one soliciting investment through its MLM opportunity. Ergo Salus Global is required to register said investment scheme with financial regulators.

In Germany this would be BaFin. Yet Salus Global fails to provide evidence it has registered its gold investment scheme with financial regulators in any jurisdiction.

Running an unregistered investment scheme constitutes securities fraud in any country with a regulated financial market.

In summary, Salus Global’s MLM opportunity combines disclosure failures with pyramid recruitment and securities fraud.

As with all MLM pyramid schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will commissions.

This will see Salus Global affiliates stop paying membership fees, eventually prompting a collapse. Notwithstanding whatever happens if gold investors are not paid the promised 70% ROI.

That at least two of Salus Global’s executives are tied to Karatbars International isn’t a coincidence. We’ve been down this road before.

Math guarantees that when a pyramid scheme collapses, the majority of participants lose money. This is on top of potential Salus Global gold investment scheme losses.