From Safir/ZENIQ to Voo/Avinoc to XPRO & Copper.One – a crypto network with well-known faces and new labels

Blockchain promises, network marketing and dubious business models – an investigative analysis of international recommendation structures.

Technological visions – or just clever marketing?  

It’s a familiar pattern: big promises of financial freedom, passive income and revolutionary technologies keep attracting new investors. Projects such as ZENIQ/Safir, VOO.One, Copper.One and currently XPRO are adorned with buzzwords such as blockchain, tokenization and decentralization. However, if you take a closer look, you will recognize astonishing personnel and structural continuities in many of these projects.

Behind the scenes of XPRO, VOO & Copper.One: Who is behind them?

• Peter Skerl, Erwin Dokter and Gernot Winter were already involved in JUWELIS and later played a key role in ZENIQ. Through Zentatec GmbH, they drove the development of the so-called “ZENIQ Hubs”, which prompted small investors in particular to invest. Gernot Winter is still the managing director of AVINOC and VOO.One, which are now reappearing in the XPRO environment.
• Jose Gordo, Gorka Buces and Charbel Zalaquett bring experience from internationally criticized network marketing projects such as WeWe Global, Xifra Lifestyle and The Blockchain Era, which have been targeted by financial regulators in several countries.
• Dada Pey (Dada Saghdoshpey) is responsible for the SHIIRO Business Academy – a training system that critics attribute to classic structured sales in the way it works. Pey has already been the subject of observations by German and Austrian supervisory authorities (BaFin, FMA).

Well-known sales mechanisms rebranded

Even if the new providers emphasize that they have nothing in common with the previous projects, the operational proximity remains obvious. Once again, well-known promoters such as Werner Kaiser, Toni Ehmann and Swen Völkl-Schild, who were already significantly involved in sales in previous projects, are making an appearance. The systems once again rely on aggressive recommendation structures, emotional success stories and the fascination of technical buzzwords.

The change in strategy at VOO, which has used various narratives over the years, is also particularly striking: first marketed as an aviation innovation, then announced as a travel platform and now repositioned in connection with the supposed copper innovation project Copper.One.

Between legality and the gray area

Investigation proceedings initiated in 2021 against individual players have since been discontinued. Legally, the suspicion of fraud could not be substantiated with the certainty required for a conviction. Nevertheless, questions remain about the economic viability of these business models. Critics argue that many of these projects live primarily from the influx of new investors, while tangible real business activities fade into the background.

Recurring patterns:

• Technology as a sales tool: terms such as “tokenization” or “NFT” are often used more for marketing than for provable product benefits.
• Focus on structural sales: The development of sales teams and the promotion of income opportunities regularly dominate the external image, while real operational substance is barely documented.
• Emotional storytelling instead of comprehensible facts: Professionally staged Zoom calls, success stories and elaborately produced image videos characterize the image. Independent audits, verifiable partnerships or comprehensible business figures, on the other hand, are rare.

Our conclusion

The recurring personnel interdependencies and the same sales approach raise doubts as to whether the new projects are actually substantial business models – or rather the continuation of a familiar system under changing brands. The following applies to investors: behind the technological vocabulary, it is worth taking a closer look at the actual business activities. Independent advice and critical examination are still urgently recommended in view of the history to date.

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Sources: https://linktr.ee/xprotools, Telegram Gruppen XPRO Channel, Shiiro Official Channel, .One