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Navan Global founder Trey Knight, aka Haskell Knight, and wife Emily Knight, aka Emily Deborah Fryer, are set to plead guilty to bankruptcy fraud. Known to BehindMLM was the Knights’ indictment for wire fraud, filed in Louisiana back in 2021. That case is scheduled for trial commencing February 4th, 2025. What we didn’t know the…
Trusted Smart Chain fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. I came across Trusted Smart Chain when an IN8 marketing video linked to in one of BehindMLM’s articles was flagged as deleted. The video was uploaded by Travis Flaherty. To confirm I visited Flaherty’s YouTube channel and found the videos had been…
Seven SAEG Ponzi net-winners have settled with the court-appointed Receiver. As disclosed in the Receiver’s Sixth Report, filed on January 9th; To date, the Receiver identified 10 recipients of false profits totaling $98,713. The Receiver made a demand upon those investors to return the false profits, and to date settled his claim against 7 of…
Two Oris Teams scammers have been arrested in Pune. As reported by Punekar News on January 12th, the arrests were made following a complaint by a “highly educated youth”. The Pimpri-Chinchwad Cyber Police have arrested two individuals in connection with the scam. The accused have been identified as Avinash Singh and Ravi Thakur. Singh’s and…
Two Oris Teams scammers have been arrested in Pune. As reported by Punekar News on January 12th, the arrests were made following a complaint by a “highly educated youth”. The Pimpri-Chinchwad Cyber Police have arrested two individuals in connection with the scam. The accused have been identified as Avinash Singh and Ravi Thakur. Singh’s and…
Earlier this week BehindMLM reported on Brian Shuster’s RICO fraud lawsuit, filed against Josh Denne, his company Blockchain Alliance and Jeremy Roma. In the article we noted Denne had filed an earlier state-level Californian suit against Shuster. Unfortunately California does not provide public access to state-level court filings. A reader has since provided BehindMLM with…
Former CEO and WorldVentures Director Michael Azcue has settled with the Spherature Investments Liquidating Trustee. WorldVentures was a travel-themed MLM pyramid scheme that collapsed through bankruptcy in 2020. Spherature Investments was WorldVentures’ parent company at time of collapse. As part of his duties, the Spherature Investments Trustee sued Azcue (right) in October 2022. As per…
Former CEO and WorldVentures Director Michael Azcue has settled with the Spherature Investments Liquidating Trustee. WorldVentures was a travel-themed MLM pyramid scheme that collapsed through bankruptcy in 2020. Spherature Investments was WorldVentures’ parent company at time of collapse. As part of his duties, the Spherature Investments Trustee sued Azcue (right) in October 2022. As per…
Investview has settled Apex fraud allegations with the SEC for $375,000. The civil monetary penalty represents just 1.7% of the $21 million the SEC alleges Apex took in. As alleged by the SEC, Investview offered unregistered securities through Apex. In July 2019, Investview launched the Apex Program. The Apex Program purported to use “Apex Packs”…
Tupperware’s operations in Belgium have officially collapsed. As reported by HLN on January 13th, Tupperware’s US executives have given the go ahead for bankruptcy proceedings. Tupperware’s Belgium bankruptcy proceedings follows closure of a local factory in Aalst few months ago. Up until bankruptcy approval, Tupperware had not issued a public statement regarding the closure. [US…