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I was at the entrance
and saw them giving out these little mirrors.
I will ask all of you
to please
take them out of your pockets.
And hold them in your hands.
I'll ask you to do something
you haven't done in a long time.
Look into your own eyes like it's the first time.
Can you see your eyes?
- Yes! - Can you see them well?
- Yes! - Put the mirror right in front of them.
That's it.
I think you've forgotten about yourselves.
Keep looking in the mirror,
because I will now read to you what I once told myself.
- Do you all have a mirror? - Yes!
If you don't have it, close your eyes and imagine one.
Every morning,
when I wake up feeling sad,
I'll look into the mirror.
And I'll know I have a heart full of love.
And full of courage to carry on.
I want you to give yourselves one last chance,
because it's very easy to stay seated and complain about the past.
I now invite you to make a final decision,
and dare to stand on your chair!
Yes, go on, do it!
Stand on your chairs and make that final decision,
because human beings, ladies and gentlemen,
were born to be free.
We were born to reach our fullest potential.
That is our one and only opportunity!
Interpol has ordered the detainment of Leonardo Cositorto,
CEO of the Generation Zoe organization.
We're talking about a Ponzi scheme, a scam.
HOW DID GENERATION ZOE WORK?
The commission keeps increasing
in relation to the amount of friends you can convince.
How many of you are freer than before?
Cositorto directed and promoted an association
to commit illegal acts.
This so-called company, Generation Zoe, doesn't produce anything.
Its only activity is to collect money, return a part, keep the rest. Simple.
GENERATION ZOE WILL HAVE A NEW CEO
What kind of a company can offer 7.5% monthly profitability in dollars?
ALLEGED SCAMS WITHIN GENERATION ZOE PRIOR TO CHARGES
Who has bought a house or a new car this year?
The Generation Zoe scandal is beginning to spread internationally.
It's not only in Colombia. Also in Peru, Ecuador, the United States,
Guatemala, Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Germany.
How many of us are happier?
What's behind this cryptocurrency pastor?
Is there something, or nothing at all?
The idea was to create a Zoe way of life, which is a choice,
because we don't have to live in the world created for us.
Of course, this is entirely divergent, disruptive,
and different from the world provided by the traditional political system
where they give you a roof, put you in a box, give you a salary,
and have you earn what the market allows.
On the other hand, Zoe allows you to earn according to your efforts.
Leaders, are you following me?
We have escaped this culture's enslaving paradigm,
and have entered the paradigm of abundance.
ILLUSIONS FOR SALE: THE RISE AND FALL OF GENERATION ZOE
Villa María is a city where we have almost everything.
Well, we're missing a mall.
It's like a big town.
If I know someone, most likely we'll have someone else in common.
There's a lot of purchasing power,
especially from people with undeclared income sources.
It's a city where you can grow, if you're willing to.
Like most of the Pampa Húmeda region,
Villa María lives off its rural area.
Twenty-four percent of the national production of milk
is here.
It's become the country's main dairy area, over Sunchales and Rafaela.
There is a lot of industry adding value to rural production.
These factors illustrate the economic power
that Villa María and all of its surrounding areas possess.
Leonardo Cositorto knew what Villa María had to offer.
He knew the place.
If you could go anywhere in the country, why would you come to Villa María?
VICTIM OF GENERATION ZOE
My name is Belén. I was born here in the city.
I have a wholesale clothing and footwear business.
I've been doing that for almost seven years.
And I have two children.
Maybe it was the kind of life that I was leading.
It all felt a bit flat to me, like a whole lot of the same.
I felt like something was missing,
and there was something else left for me to discover.
I began studying coaching in 2019.
COACHING LESSONS
SEARCH WITH GOOGLE
I saw it as an opportunity for personal growth,
and it gave me the desire to start dreaming again.
Ontological coaching gives us the ability to communicate effectively with others,
and it encompasses everything.
Communication, listening, active listening, and beyond.
It's not only about transmitting the information,
but also learning how to receive it.
My teachers were Claudio Álvarez and Silvia, his mother.
And if we all work as a team,
we'll be able to achieve extraordinary results...
We'd go to Silvia's house.
There were, like, ten to fifteen students at most.
It took me an incredibly long time to believe in myself.
To realize that I can do...
For me, my life was defined by before and after coaching.
They taught us to see things from another angle.
We learned to use our minds in a different way.
It was always through a lens of personal growth and self-empowerment.
Never a financial point of view.
All of the information that I have gained
through my experiences...
Once I was finished with all of my studies,
I started hearing more about Zoe.
It was really starting to make some noise around town.
FOUNDER OF GENERATION ZOE
Greetings to all Córdobans, and those who aren't.
Today at 5:00 p.m., don't miss the grand opening
of one of the offices that will leave a mark on both
Argentina and Latin America.
"Opportunity" is the key word.
Zoe!
As you can see, this is the lobby.
And today is our grand opening here in Villa María.
We have the traders over here.
And over there you can see the offices.
Here we have the tellers, or cashiers, so to speak.
And after a lot of hard work, today is the opening day of our own space.
GENERATION ZOE LEADER VILLA MARÍA
Have they walked around the offices? Have you seen everything yet?
Do you know what to do?
When you come to collect your money, do you know what to do?
GENERATION ZOE LEADER VILLA MARÍA
Through social media,
I began seeing how their lives had changed.
All of a sudden,
they began having all of these fancier things.
Houses.
Trips.
Cars.
- How are you, Claudito? - Great.
I'm actually living out one of my dreams.
I had always said to my mother, my kids, my family,
and to everyone else,
I would tell them that one day, I would have this car.
And I even had it as my computer's screen saver for many years.
But what I never, ever imagined or even considered was a possibility,
was that I would be receiving this kind of a blessing
at this stage of my life.
And it's all thanks to you, Leo.
To the team, to Zoe, and to the lifestyle we are living.
Thank you.
Claudito, three years ago, what did you drive, a photocopier?
The closest I'd gotten to it was a photocopier...
So, I went to Claudio to ask what this was all about.
He told me, and then invited me, to a business presentation.
So I went, and the rest...
In order to tell you what Zoe is,
I first have to talk to you about the essence of it all.
That, at it's core, it is a vision of an educational model
that stems from coaching.
However, we have come to understand
that solely conducting training was not enough.
If we didn't have the means to pay our light bills,
our water bills, and our children's expenses,
if we ended up getting sick,
we could end up going into bankruptcy.
That is the reason why we created this tool,
to give everybody the possibility of making money.
That's when they told me that through the educational membership,
I could study coaching and get paid while I was doing it.
EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM
GENERATE INCOME
Our memberships had about four pillars altogether.
The first pillar has always been about the training of our leadership team.
Then we created what we called the referral plan.
In this plan, for every person that was referred by a member,
we gave them royalties and earnings.
There was also another pillar, which we called the pillar of tourism.
If you made a one-time investment of just $1,600,
we would take you on at least two trips over the next two years.
And then, finally, we had the fourth pillar,
which was the investment area, with a 7.5% profitability
in the same currency in which the person had initially invested.
I had determined that return myself because I decided
that this amount was enough for the company to sustain itself
and to grow as well.
I told my husband about it,
checked how much money I had at home,
and he said "yes" with no hesitation.
Mostly because we had both been looking for an opportunity to grow.
I took the amount and deposited it.
Hey, how are you? This is Leonardo Cositorto greeting you.
I want to tell you that, for the last 27 years,
I have been dedicated to the networking and sales business.
And in those years, I've been in over a thousand planes.
A thousand planes that cost me around half a million dollars.
just in tickets alone.
They may have cost even more.
I have committed my life to being a professional ontological coach,
and we train leaders all over Latin America.
Going across Latin America, bringing forth opportunity.
Spreading everything, from the word of God
to business opportunities. The man you were waiting for...
What everyone was saying in the auditorium
at the Santa Marta convention,
was that he was a renowned master coach in the ontology field in Argentina...
VICTIM OF GENERATION ZOE
...and he was an experienced businessman.
Mr. Leonardo Cositorto!
I had never heard of Leonardo Cositorto.
When he stepped onto the stage,
the applause was just overwhelming,
and the joy and all that cheering
just wouldn't stop.
It really caught my attention.
Everything I see is a perception, the interpretation of an illusion.
But my ego makes me believe that what I see is the reality.
He had a great sense of humanity.
Even in Scripture, the Bible says we see things through a mirror.
Who are we actually looking at in the mirror? Ourselves.
He was sensible.
Repeat, ontological coaching
isn't just information.
It's a paradigm for winning.
THE 21 INSIGHTS
Right at the end of giving the talks,
they started offering their educational packages.
ALL CAREERS AND INSIGHTS FOR FREE
What were the subjects?
BETTER THAN JUST A SERMON
Neurolinguistics, ontology, finances.
I was on the fence
because it's one thing to like something, and another to want to buy it.
I wasn't sure I wanted to buy it.
However, when I went back to the activities
after finishing my lunch,
when I opened my wallet,
I discovered that all my cash was gone.
Unfortunately, we will be sharing what we have to-- Yes?
So I told the master coach what had just happened to me.
And he said,
"Well, I'm willing to count the money that they stole from you
as part of the payment,
and you can pay off the remaining amount next week."
To me, that was a clear example of solidarity and support.
And I thought,
"What if I buy it? What if I pay it off?"
"Why not?"
"I'll study, and if it yields returns...
it would be good for me."
In addition to the way he handled that auditorium,
which was hypnotizing.
It was amazing.
And it was something that slowly started taking a hold of me.
It seems like he studies people's minds,
and he sees into them.
He just says what you want to hear.
When I finally decided
that I was going to pay off the educational package,
I had already signed up to be a student member of the Zoe group.
ARGENTINA MARCH 3RD 2020
The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed.
We have the first positive case of coronavirus.
- A 46-year-old man in Italy... - He had no symptoms.
MARCH 20, 2020
Starting at midnight tomorrow, everyone must comply
in total preventative social isolation.
No one can leave their place of residence at any time.
Everyone must stay at home.
Hi, I want to tell you that, during this quarantine,
I've met some new friends that have always been in my house,
but I'd never noticed them before.
Let me introduce you.
"Hi, how are you?" "How's it going?"
My name is Maximiliano Batista.
I'm 43 years old.
I've been working since I was 11.
In warehouses, ice cream shops,
and when I was 14 I worked at a funeral home.
VICE PRESIDENT AT GENERATION ZOE
One day, when I was 18 years old, I went out looking for a job.
And that's when I met Leonardo, who had a direct sales company.
A car has high operational...
You'd see him driving a Toyota Country, an amazing car.
He wore the best suits, like Hugo Boss.
And I used to buy my clothes secondhand.
You could see that people admired him, they'd applaud him, he'd give his talks.
I thought he was amazing and wanted to be just like him.
Every morning, go into the bathroom, look at yourself in the mirror, and say,
"Wow, I'm so good-looking!" Come on, everyone together!
"I'm so good-looking! My body's amazing!"
Then just kiss yourself a little bit. Very good.
So, I started working for that company.
I remember he asked me what I needed and I said,
"Audio equipment and a fridge."
And he says, "If you become a manager,
I'll give you the fridge and the audio equipment."
Of course I helped Maxi Batista. Absolutely.
I gave him a hand so he could grow. The rest was all thanks to his own merit.
I remember I worked so hard that in four and a half months,
I became a manager.
But, hey, life happens.
I was in the company for seven or eight months,
and during that time I disagreed with him on many things.
So I left the company and started on my own.
Today's training challenge. First...
Until the pandemic hit, I was doing well.
I had four cars working at a cab company, a cosmetics company.
I bought my apartment.
When the pandemic hit, there was a breaking point
because all the door-to-door salespeople that worked with me had to leave.
CLOSED - 80 DAYS SHUTDOWN IMPOSSIBLE TO SUSTAIN
WE CAN'T OPEN YET!!!
I went out with a table and sold perfumes, lotion and hand sanitizer to people.
Right around that time,
Leo used to live around the corner from my office,
and that's when we started to get in touch again.
I HAVE A PROJECT TO TELL YOU ABOUT
IT'S CALLED GENERATION ZOE
That's when Leo came up to me and he said,
"Max, I need a coach to give these talks."
And I told him, "Sure, no problem."
Hi. I want to tell you that we're giving out ten scholarships.
We live in an Argentina that's wealthy, but mentally poor.
Today, I will talk about the three A's.
These are the fundamentals to achieve success...
I'd get paid for each talk, so I'd show up and lead the session.
I was just like any other hired coach.
We'll tell you a little bit of what Zoe's about,
and about Leo's goal,
which is to certify a million people to make a living being coaches.
Good evening, everybody, in all countries of Latin America.
A marvelous audience of 326 people.
I imagine you're tuning in from all over the world.
Welcome to this neuromarketing madness.
It's really a pleasure to have you here.
I've missed giving these talks.
During the pandemic, the information spread massively.
And because of it,
so did people's participation.
Our main purpose is to democratize education,
so everyone can have access to an education focused on results.
Why do some people achieve better results than others?
Thank you to all attendees.
Participant numbers keep growing, people are still coming in.
ATTENDEES
Because we love what we're doing here, and because we want so much more.
During the pandemic, everyone was staying in their homes.
Many people were looking for remote jobs.
They were looking for something to study, or some kind of economic endeavor.
People were bored,
and the circumstances of the pandemic
helped us grow a bit faster than we ever expected.
We've also got Leo here. Leo has just signed in.
As soon as we opened up the chat room, there were already 720 people.
They were connected and waiting.
It's amazing. Let me tell you, Claudito, I'm in Mexico right now.
I just landed in Cancún. We're getting ready for today's event.
All of these people behind me, they are all waiting.
- Spectacular. - Ready for the flight.
Well, we're ready to go, Cartagena.
Guys, this is us living the Zoe life!
- From Brazil... - We are Zoe!
♪ Your life will change Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Zoe... ♪
Medellín, here!
I want to thank Zoe and Leo Cositorto for this chance to meet new people
and learn from each of them. This has been an amazing experience.
An impressive night in Arequipa with a full theater.
We're kicking off tomorrow.
People are really happy and thankful.
I was hospitalized, and I escaped from two hospitals.
Don't talk to me about the pandemic. I know it from the inside.
I might've been the first forced into isolation in Argentina.
I don't know if it was 'cause I'm crazy or 'cause of COVID.
I ran away from two hospitals!
Around November 2020, Leo says to me, "Max, I need more of you here."
"Travel with me, let's form a duo."
I thought, "Maybe that's my life purpose, to continue giving these talks
and touching people's lives and their hearts."
You are the one who can bless, the one who can perform miracles.
You have that power.
Imagine if you showed that to an employer.
I loved going on stage, giving talks and seeing people transform.
I'd finish and people would come up to me and they'd say,
"Max, you changed my life."
"I used to waste away lying in bed all day."
"I couldn't get up."
"And now I get up just to come and see you talk."
My name is Mirian. I was born in Buenos Aires.
I'm married, I have three kids.
And I'm a healthcare professional, a dialysis technician.
I first I heard about Zoe from a person that I fully trusted.
VICTIM OF GENERATION ZOE, BUENOS AIRES BRANCH
They said, "Look, I have something great for you that you're gonna love,
and it will change your life completely."
"I've actually been a part of this group for a while,
and I think this will be perfect for you."
They then explained that it was real,
and that it provided a 7.5% return each month.
And I didn't have to do anything at all other than making the first investment.
It was all about making your own money by putting it to work for you.
And I said that I loved it!
So that's how it happened.
Without knowing anything about Zoe,
without ever seeing their logo
or knowing who their director, owner, or creator was,
I started my first membership.
STUDY AND INVEST IN YOUR FUTURE WITH ZOE
When I opened up their website,
I noticed that it had my name and picture posted on it,
and the website showed me a virtual office that they called the "back office."
You could check things on your cell phone,
you could see how your money was growing little by little.
It was clear as day, in this beautiful virtual cloud.
So you'd always get excited about it.
It was this feeling like,
"Wow, I have so much money. I can't believe it."
And so, of course, you begin wanting to share this with people
and talk about it, because it's contagious.
"What are you up to?" "Did you see this?" "What are you doing right now?"
I started to see this opportunity as a doorway to achieve my dreams,
my financial freedom, and my economic independence.
I started having more time to myself, for my household and my children.
You would see this beautiful world and think that this is the new thing.
It's what's coming next.
I want to ride this new wave.
I thought it was all very interesting and enthralling.
Before you realized it, you were constantly thinking about it.
You'd wake up with Zoe and go to bed with Zoe.
I can't remember the exact date,
but later I was invited to a convention in Carlos Paz.
I think they had filled up ten hotels.
The minimum investment was $400.
But if you could put in a thousand,
you would get access to this convention in which the hotel, the meals,
and the tickets for the lectures were all included.
There, in Carlos Paz, I met Cositorto, Max Batista,
and many of the leaders from all the other provinces.
It's about time that something came into this world
to shatter the culture and the routine.
That something is here.
And that something is Generation Zoe!
And when you started talking to people,
we were all on the same page about pursuing our dreams.
They were like, "Hey, what do you want?"
"I came into Zoe 'cause I don't have my own home."
Just like me.
You'd hear everyone from millionaires
to the poorest person that had just gotten in.
We were in it together.
All of the speakers were people that had been in the business for a while.
And they'd talk about how much they had invested,
and when and how much they had earned to date.
As an actor, I was barely making $700 a month.
And today, working with Zoe,
I'm making over $15,000 each month.
A donation of $1,000. So much gratitude!
Well, let's join them to make it 1,500.
There we go. He's taking $1,500!
COSITORTOLAND
It's a boy!
He has the same name as my son.
- Santiago! - Where is Santiago?
Over there in the back!
There were all of these comedians and dance groups.
I remember that Max Batista came out on stage,
and he started dancing.
Then, at a certain point, he took off his shirt
and he started doing some kind of a sexy dance.
Cositorto was just looking at him in amazement
from a small balcony.
It was like going to Disneyland.
I mean, I've never been, but from what I've seen,
it's an amusement park filled with fantasy.
And it felt like we were living a life of luxury.
It felt like you could do anything you could ever want
if you were part of Zoe.
I told my husband I'd ask Claudio to work at their office.
He asked, "How will you do that?"
"How will you manage it with your business?"
I didn't care.
I wanted to speak to Claudio because, with the investments I'd been making,
it would take me much longer to achieve what I wanted.
I was already in, but I wanted more.
I was seeing normal people that would come up to me to talk about their dreams.
"I'm putting all of my life's savings in here
because I know that this will give me more."
"I know that I will be able to help my parents retire
and give my children a better life."
That's where it clicked.
This is a door to a magical world, and we're going in.
It woke up a desire in me to do anything, especially once I was in.
I was living what they were living.
GENERATION ZOE WE UNITE LIVES AND DREAMS
I'm Nahuel Bargaz. I'm now 32 years old.
I used to work in the automotive industry.
I worked at a service station where I had my own repair shop.
A friend began talking to me about investments,
GENERATION ZOE TRADER VILLA MARÍA BRANCH
the world of cryptocurrencies,
and honestly, there was a lot I didn't understand.
So I started studying it, and that's when I rediscovered
my love for learning, and I got into the trading world.
By word of mouth, it started spreading all over town
that there was some sort of an investment fund
that also had traders.
They were all being trained while they were working there.
At that moment, they had already been interviewing traders
who had related work experience.
Ladies and gentlemen, the key word is "opportunity."
Come closer. You might be wondering what trading is all about.
Trading, my dear audience,
consists of trying to buy cheap and sell high in a short period of time,
in order to make a profit. Simple as that.
And what are we trading? Well, we have five options.
Shares listed on the stock exchange.
Currencies, such as euros, dollars, yens, pounds,
in a market called Forex.
The infamous cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others.
Raw materials, especially gold and silver,
and other kinds of commodities and futures.
It is simply an agreement between two parties
that are committed to exchanging assets
at a future established date for a set price.
Trading is an activity where you can earn or lose money.
It requires training and dedication.
For example, no one would think of piloting an airplane
after just two internet tutorials.
Right?
The first interview was over Zoom.
and then they asked me if I could go into their offices
for a second round of interviews.
I went,
they explained their workflow and methodology to me,
and I told them I liked it.
What trader wouldn't want the opportunity
to manage capital and work doing what they like to do?
It was every trader's dream.
The place felt calm and balanced,
and the offices were really well-thought-out.
To be able to come in, open my computer, talk to the coworker next to me and ask,
"Hey, what are you analyzing today? What do you like working on?"
I was finally working in a place where I could utilize what I had studied,
I could help people capitalize on profits,
and I could expand my trading expertise.
And really, after that, everything just flowed.
The first thing that they did when we got there
was take the initiative to test our abilities.
Their idea was to see
how well we were able to follow some instructions
from someone who was an expert trader.
And that expert trader was named Rosa, María Rosa.
Hello, Maracaibo, this is Rosa María González Rincón from Argentina.
I am currently working for Zoe,
and I am designing three platforms
that are going to change the way we transfer, produce,
and invest all our money.
I also work as a professional trader for the company,
and along with a team in Córdoba, here in Argentina,
we managed to produce $125,000 in earnings
for the company, and this was just in the last week.
She was clearly very knowledgeable
in everything that she was doing.
Honestly, she was really remarkable.
When I first started working there,
I did a little bit of everything.
And then I moved on to customer care.
That's where people would come in to talk to me
about investing in the business.
When people came into the office,
many of them already knew what it was about,
because it was spreading so quickly by word of mouth.
WELCOME TO ZOE
ZOE PREMIUM I'M NEW!
When you joined, you had to enter under someone else.
I'd bring someone in and make a commission
for having introduced them to the business.
That person would then bring someone else,
and I'd also receive a benefit from them bringing people into the business.
I have all of the people in my network
up to the eighth line, which in a perfect matrix of five,
is around 400,000 people.
If I have a thousand people in my network and they each get the PIN,
and each PIN up to the eighth line pays me a hundred dollars,
how much do I immediately earn?
- A hundred thousand. - Hundred thousand what?
- Dollars. - Hundred thousand dollars.
Those of us from the lower middle class
would reinvest the money we'd make.
Then there were also other kinds of people.
There were businessmen, lawyers, bankers.
That was a lot of money.
People would come in to collect $60,000.
I signed those receipts.
Sixty thousand dollars, here you go. They'd take that money in their pockets.
At one point, a man came in with cardboard boxes,
and those boxes were filled with dollars.
He walked in kicking those boxes, and he asked,
"Where do I put this?"
"What's in them?" I asked.
"Money." "In the boxes?"
"Yes, I brought in dollars."
There were $200,000 in those boxes.
It was impressive.
I swear, I had never seen so much money in all my life.
FOR "EL DIARIO" HAPPY 30 YEARS OF TRUTH-TELLING.
It was September of 2021.
The first thing was a publication in the local press,
including our newspaper El Diario del Centro del País.
The article talked about the arrival of a soccer team
that was going to take up a spot in the local league in Villa María.
The soccer team was called Deportivo Zoe.
ZOE WITH PLANS TO "GO ALL IN"
JOURNALIST "EL DIARIO" VILLA MARÍA
Big news. This was a new team. It was the first time that a new team
came up from an economic background instead of a social background.
A DIFFERENT SOCCER CLUB
This team had well-known public figures...
WITH DISCIPLINE
...of local and the national sports world.
SPIRITUAL COACHING
MENTAL STRENGTH
I'm not going to say that this was the event
that caused me to investigate things,
but something about it did catch my eye.
So I began paying a little more attention after that.
When you start noticing that the receptionist from the local clinic
that you normally go to is no longer working there,
you begin to ask yourself why.
And then you find out that they now work for Zoe.
When you go to the car dealership to service your car,
and you find out that the salesperson who sold you your last car
does not work at the dealership anymore,
and you start seeing branded vehicles,
not just any cars.
Audi,
Cooper,
BMWs, all with the Zoe logo on them,
that's when you start thinking, "What is really going on here?"
Then, almost immediately, a similar situation comes to mind.
Something that had happened previously in Villa María
with a company called Soluciones Diarias.
CUSTOMER SAYS PAYMENTS AREN'T BEING REGISTERED
The first thing that occurred to me
was asking the National Securities and Exchange Commission, via email,
if this company called Generation Zoe was officially registered.
And the National Commission of Exchange wrote back to me saying it was not.
They said that back in October
they had issued a note for them to cease their economic offerings.
I was feeling quite alone in trying to uncover the truth in all of this,
so that's when I decided to publish the first article.
I wrote it in one night.
When I wrote it, alI I really wanted was for this not to happen again.
THE COMISSION OF EXCHANGE DECLARED CESSATION FOR ZOE
We've just opened up the offices of Aviva Zoe two weeks ago,
so we really shouldn't be surprised about being attacked like this, should we?
And it's more than likely that they will keep on attacking.
And you know what?
I happened to get a WhatsApp message from our leader, and he said,
"You really thought that we would conquer the entire city and the entire region,
and that they would just cheer us on?"
"Don't be so naive."
By November, Zoe Broker started to operate.
And they told us that we would get the opportunity
to work with more significant capital.
We're talking about $50,000.
Hello there, Zoe community.
We are over here at the Zoe Broker facilities
showing you a little piece of what our platform is all about.
This is the brains of it all,
and this is our license which endorses us as an official and international broker.
Therefore, we will now be able to deal in different financial markets.
We invested an enormous amount of money during a period of several months.
In total, it cost us over $3 million to have that broker.
From there, we started to open accounts of $50,000.
One for every trusted person, or one per country.
And then we moved on to opening $250,000 accounts.
From there, we began venturing into other markets,
such as Forex futures and synthetic indices.
There were 350 traders, and they were constantly trading.
They were usually making between one and two percent daily.
That one or two percent translates
into about 25 or 40% monthly profitability.
Rosa María made almost 90%.
She even made 97% percent in one month. And she put it all on display.
We are super happy because Rosa María received an award
just after 17 days of having started operations
on the synthetic indices.
She is truly achieving extraordinary results every day.
So today, we wanted to give her a reward.
She is setting an example of humility, dedication, and discipline for us all.
Why are some people living on the streets begging for money
while others are creating their own income,
like what we're doing in Zoe?
You would invest, check it in the back office...
VICTIM OF GENERATION ZOE BUENOS AIRES BRANCH
...see daily interest rates, compound interest.
I didn't know what these things were, reinvesting, and those sorts of things.
It didn't make sense to me. It was missing a paper trail.
And along came Yrimia, and we knew that he was a former national judge.
By the end of March of 2021,
the president of the company comes to see me in my office.
And he asks me, "What do I have to do to comply with Argentina's legislation?"
GENERATION ZOE LEGAL ADVISOR
The goal is to make it abundantly clear that today, as an economic group,
this is a properly established company.
It is properly registered before the General Inspectorate of Justice,
along with its trust assets which are regulated
by the Ministry of Justice.
This means that this is all regulated.
Today, all are members of the trust.
They are no longer franchised, but participants.
They no longer receive interests. They now receive dividends.
This man comes in to quiet down everybody's doubts.
Yrimia says to me, "Max, the trust is gonna protect the company."
"You'll have a $120,000 insurance."
"And if anything happens within the company, you'll be safeguarded."
I would like to sum this up with a funny anecdote.
A journalist once asked Kissinger, "How did you make so much money?"
And maybe one day someone will ask us, "How did Zoe make so much money?"
Kissinger wouldn't answer until one day he said,
"You just have to make the first million."
So the natural question after that was, "How?"
And he said, "By doing whatever possible."
"What about after that?" "By following the law."
He reassured us
publicly
that we could be absolutely at ease
because since he was the legal director,
he was the one responsible
for the legality of every one of Zoe's products.
The other day, Maxi was just here with me and I said to him,
"Maxi, we're going all in on Bitcoin."
Being next to Leo meant always talking about possibilities, growth,
of what was going to happen, of what could come.
People would come up to me saying,
"Uncle Max, I have a business idea to bring in."
And the first thing I'd say to them was,
"Don't talk to me, talk to Leo. He's the owner."
He'd take ownership of all the ideas and projects.
Two people brought their dream to our company,
and now they will make good money.
Besides, we want our puppies and cats to be in a good place.
Who here has a dog or a cat?
The businesses were what gave me the most reassurance,
without a shadow of a doubt.
We bought two Zoe Burger establishments for approximately $60,000 each,
not including remodeling costs,
and then, right behind that, we had Zoe Car.
You could see that they had all of these stocks
in different types of companies.
The cars and the car offices were there.
Everything was growing.
Everything just kept getting bigger and bigger.
All of a sudden, we were everywhere.
Because we are what we eat, we are our repressed emotions,
and we are what we declare.
So today, we declare the opening of Zoe Natural.
Thank you, Leo. And thank you, Maxi.
Do you want to know what else?
For the women, there will be an entire gallery
for a beauty center.
A whole beauty center.
There were surgeries.
My female coworkers would suddenly come in
with completely different looks.
Or with Mini Coopers.
We are also going to open our first school for kindergarten and first grade,
so that our children can finally go to the schools that they truly deserve.
- Bravo! - A school where there will be no strikes!
What Leonardo Cositorto was creating was an ecosystem.
A community where, if people were a part of Zoe,
they'd go to the Zoe gym, they'd eat at the Zoe burger shop.
If they wanted to buy a car, they could do that too.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CRYPTOCURRENCIES
Zoe Cash. We're already at the Zoe market cap,
where you can see that today, we're worth 20 cents of a dollar.
It's our own cryptocurrency,
which we have created after investing more than $4 million.
They were always advertising about their growth,
talking about how they were going to explore other countries
because there were more people interested.
In Australia, in Great Britain, in Italy.
Leo, here are the planes for you.
Here they are.
We then opened the Futswap in Sweden,
and we also opened the Miami offices.
Leonardo went and bought soccer teams in Spain,
he bought teams in Paraguay, and in Thailand.
We also had Deportivo Español.
You must be like a steel door, a steel arch against goals.
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
If you score two goals or more, 2.4 million.
Each of you will take home a 100,000 pesos.
Tomorrow or the day after, you'll get a virtual wallet with cryptocurrency.
You'll have 55,000 pesos there as a gift.
You can save it because the company will keep it safe,
but if you want to exchange that for money, you can.
You know what materials are made of? Raw material, right?
Do you know what the raw material of things we cannot see is?
Faith!
Faith is the substance of all we cannot see.
We've won this game even before it's begun, okay?
Then we opened Zoe Paradise.
WE ARE CREATING PARADISE
When Zoe Paradise came up, I was in a group, and Leonardo would say,
"The parcel of land is worth this much and you can't miss out."
Hey, how are you? If you pay for it in cash, it's 54,000.
ZOE PARADISE MEGA PROJECT
And you'll have three parcels in the metaverse,
which is an investment as well.
You'll see what it generates, and you'll have first pick.
If you agree, I'll send you to the payments group
so you can tell us how you'd like to do it.
Well, Leo, you tell me.
Is it in cash? In banknotes?
This feels like a whirlwind to me, but oh well.
VOICE OF VICTIM
I'm following my heart, and this is where it's taking me.
These are all my savings, so I'm gonna trust and keep going.
Zoe Paradise is a great investment, you'll see.
It was a type of holding company where you could see that it was not Zoe,
but rather a whole lot of different companies
that were all behind Zoe.
ZOE APPS - ZOE AIRLINE - ZOE WATER ZOE CAR - ZOE COLLEGE - ZOE DRUGSTORE
ZOE THEATER - ZOE RADIO
We began seeing that we were backed up
by many business deals that provided us with a sense of security.
Well, here we go.
We are about to get on the plane that will take us to Dubai.
It's gonna be a 28-hour flight altogether.
Come on, check it out.
DUBAI UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The world is ruled by love, so never love money and use people.
Because then, whatever you gain, you will lose.
If you do it the other way around, it will multiply.
Yrimia was the one who said to base the company in Dubai,
because taxes are lower there than anywhere else in the world.
We came here to set up the Zoe Dubai company.
And we're also gonna set up Zoe Soccer, and we want to open up a clinic as well.
By recommendation of the lawyers,
an accountant, and Yrimia,
Leo needed a trusted person.
When I signed on as vice president, one of the first things he said to me
was that it wasn't a partnership.
He needed someone he could trust not to ask him for stocks in the future,
someone who wouldn't ask for absolutely anything.
Well, here we are in the house
of one of the owners of a major bank in Dubai.
It's a house with its own private beach.
I just saw Dubai as another experience.
Okay, okay, look at this. Oh, I don't want to look.
Look at this. Look at what I'm doing! Look at how we're eating!
You would see them and enjoy it as well
because it was like you were there with them.
Out of all of the animals, leaders should choose to be like camels.
They are the only ones who carry water
so that everyone else can cross the desert.
When I told Luis Yrimia, in Dubai,
that it seemed like it would be convenient
for the company to buy a gold mine, he said it was a very smart business idea.
That's when he introduced me to a person claiming to be the owner of Sol Petróleo.
This person sold me a percentage of a gold mine in San Juan,
which was called León,
and also another mine.
LEÓN MINE
And they told me that from that moment on,
I would be receiving a certain quantity of gold.
PLANTING OUR FLAG IN SAN JUAN.
They valued it at about $500,000.
And for us at that time,
500,000 was about half a day's worth of our resources.
The gold mines existed.
I went personally to the court of the mines
to verify their existence.
I spoke with the judge while I was there,
and the mines were in good working condition.
And then Cositorto signed a contract.
This stated that he had to make payments in installments.
And once the final payment was made,
they would transfer the license to utilize the mine to the Zoe company.
They laughed in our faces
when we said that we were going to back up the currency with gold!
Well, tonight, I can declare it!
We will trade Zoe Cash for gold.
One gram, one coin. One gram, one coin.
GET YOUR FREEDOM WITH ZOE CASH
The final thing that we will be doing, let's just call it the icing on the cake,
is the acquisition of gold mines.
We have secured the first two mines,
and we are also going to utilize another mine.
Even though we are not going to be the owners,
we will be given the rights of extraction.
Pretty soon, we will be bringing a film crew to the mine
to illustrate how we will be extracting our first grams of gold.
Bravo!
Thank you very much.
Let's go!
Everything I'm talking about is tangible.
You can see it and you can touch it.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY VILLA MARÍA
You cannot buy a gold mine in Argentina. Not even the area where gold is extracted.
The mines of the most important metals, such as gold,
belong to the state of Argentina.
There are sometimes concessions that are granted through bids,
and a percentage is given to the exploiter,
while the other part belongs to the state of Argentina.
Yrimia said to me, "I have an investor from China
willing to invest $100 million in the company,
in order to exploit the mine."
That way, Zoe Cash could enter the Chinese market,
and people would be able to buy with it.
I wasn't involved in the business side of things at all.
Was it all a lie?
That's something only Yrimia knows.
I wanted to tell you that this Friday and Saturday,
I will be at the ABC Theater.
Don't miss it. You and all your friends.
Coaching, mentoring, and the best business in the world in your hands.
Ciao.
COLOMBIA NOVEMBER 2021
How are my people doing?
The night has only just begun.
Because after tonight,
no one will be the same after leaving this place.
That's why I'd like to ask for a huge round of applause
for someone who has shone since getting here,
because everybody loves him.
Max Batista.
Maxi! Come here.
Good evening!
We had an 8,000% growth in 2021,
so our turnover was around 40 to $50 million a month.
I used to handle a million or a million and a half dollars each day.
First, I'd like to thank God for putting me in this place.
And second, I'd like to thank Leo.
Now, we have another great inspirational leader,
who has always been an important presence to us.
The founder...
- The founder... - ...of Zoe.
...of Zoe.
And who's ready today
to inspire and enchant us.
One more time.
Leo Cositorto, welcome!
The company had a tendency
which was not to multiply by 8,000%,
but at least by 400%.
So that means that, at that time, we would make about $2 billion.
Any Colombians in the house?
Long live Colombia!
It wasn't a unicorn, but a double unicorn.
And we're talking about a global scale.
Today, we have 64 offices throughout the world.
And this month,
we have transferred
more than $20 million as earnings
into the hands of the associates
and members of Zoe.
And today,
we are 58,000 people worldwide!
Look at what we're doing here.
We'll need a coliseum next time, won't we?
In the next few years we are going to create movements!
Civil movements and political movements,
so that tomorrow we can lead one, two three, four, five, six countries
throughout Latin America.
I'll close with this.
There's a journalist from Villa María.
His name is Sergio.
He sends an email because he begins noticing that, in Villa María,
people are leaving their traditional jobs.
A secretary, an employee at a bank,
they are leaving their old jobs that paid $200, $300 a month,
to do what?
To work for Zoe!
And what's the problem?
I am not afraid of any man!
I fear no man!
I will only get down on my knees before God.
Jesus said, "And you will do greater things!"
What we have accomplished together as a team,
are things that not even the Lord accomplished
when he was on this earth,
But he promised us that we would accomplish what?
Greater things!
And it's true, greater things are coming!
UNMASKING A PYRAMID SCHEME
Beto Mendeleiev, which is obviously an alias.
I never found out who he was, and I also never asked.
He was a Twitter user who began exposing Generation Zoe...
#ZOESCAM
...around October 2021.
He didn't have many followers at the time.
COMPUTER SCIENTIST
I think I remember seeing something, but didn't think much of it then.
I was busy with other things, like work and such.
I've worked in research and computer science
for about three decades now.
And in my free time, as a hobby, I tweet a lot.
I had already seen quite a few scams around.
They were supposedly wonderful business deals
based on cryptocurrency and other trendy things.
I then stumbled across something called Generation Zoe,
which turned out to be quite entertaining.
Don't sell your house to invest.
Just put in 500 or a thousand dollars.
Are you broke? Sell the dog!
When I started seeing all this
and learning about the world of Generation Zoe,
I was obviously drawn to Leonardo Cositorto's persona.
And I thought, "Where did this guy come from? Who is he?"
And, as I was looking into his history,
t turns out that his father had been a businessman
in the publishing business.
And then at some point, back around the early '80s,
he went completely bankrupt.
So he then found his way out of this situation
by going out to the streets to sell books.
And he would take Leonardo Cositorto and his brother Guillermo along with him.
So that was how Leonardo Cositorto learned,
or better yet, he developed all of his skills as a direct salesman.
He did it with street sales by going door to door.
Hey, you're a cop, right?
Yes, sir.
We're having a clearance sale.
Sales aren't allowed here.
Got it. Don't be mad. I'm sorry, I didn't know.
I'll speak to the manager right now.
I thought this was all legal. Is the police station near here?
Two blocks to the left.
- To the left? - Yes.
- Two blocks away? - That way.
And you're Corporal Flores?
- How did you know? - Oh, because of the badge.
- Thank you. I apologize. - It's okay. Now you know.
Come on, let's go to the police station now.
Good morning. Is this the police station?
Corporal Flores sent me. We're having a sale.
He said-- He told me that...
Good.
In the '90s,
Cositorto was basically a trainer for salespeople.
He was like a chameleon.
He would speak differently to each person
depending on the moment or place he was in.
But no matter what, he always had the same speech.
It was about being a revolutionary,
and a successful businessman who would transform the economy
and create a generation of millionaires.
And at some point, he also dipped his toes in the world of evangelism.
He gives and sometimes, what does He do? He takes.
And He takes in order to do what? Give again. He gives to...
Basically, what the Catholic Church says is that if you're poor,
that's a good thing.
The theology of prosperity, however,
says that God actually wants you to be wealthy.
You're poor because you're at odds with God.
Get on your knees if necessary in the name of Jesus,
with all of your heart.
♪ There's no place higher ♪
♪ Or greater than being at your feet ♪
♪ Than being at your feet ♪
At first, it was difficult to believe that it was true.
How was it possible for someone to give so much of their money
to these people who were basically just door-to-door salesmen?
DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
I'd just gotten back from vacation.
It had been a long year.
On my first day back, I was given papers and told,
"This is Leonardo Cositorto."
My name is Juliana Companys.
I'm the district attorney in the city of Villa María,
in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.
My legal secretary, Florencia Bortolussi,
and my employees Alejandro Bianco and Germán Livingston,
came up to me and asked me to look at something.
They showed me some papers that said "Zoe" on them,
and I asked what that was.
She told me they'd been investigating them because they'd noticed,
through social media,
that this scam was exactly the same as the one with Soluciones Diarias,
which had happened five years prior in Villa María.
As we were in the middle of it, I said we had to build a strong case,
create some structure because we didn't have any victims yet.
That's when a call comes through to the court
in which they alert us of the exact same thing.
We thought Zoe was a fixed-income security.
This happens a lot in Villa María because there's a lot of purchasing power,
especially from people with undeclared income.
They invest in illegal fixed-income securities for a certain percentage,
then their money is loaned out and so forth.
So that's when I told Alejandro Bianco to go to Zoe, here in Villa María,
and to ask them for a loan.
He described it as some sort of super office,
at least according to Villa María standards.
"There are lots of computers, Doc, and they're all typing nonstop,
like tap, tap, tap."
"They took me to the back, where they had some chairs,
and everyone was drinking coffee."
"They gave me coffee as well."
"The office was really top-notch."
"There's clearly lots of money there."
He asks them for the loan,
and they tell him that they didn't do that there.
They said that he had to invest $500
in order for him to obtain a 7.5% profitability.
And if he brought in his family members as well,
that would add 20% more per every family member.
When he comes back, he tells me it wasn't a fixed-income security.
It was a really bad pyramid scheme.
According to our penal code, in order for a crime to exist,
there has to be a victim of these scams.
We figured we'd have to wait for a victim to show up.
WHY WOULD YOU GIVE MONEY TO A GUY NAMED COSITORTO?
What first caught my attention
was the disproportionate and ridiculous nature
of Zoe's economic offer.
How could a company possibly guarantee a monthly 7.5% profitability in dollars?
It was clear to me that it was destined to collapse eventually.
Florencia warned me that, on Twitter,
there were two or three users talking about Cositorto
and suggesting that this was all a pyramid scheme.
THEY ASK WHAT ZOE IS. LIKE THE MATRIX, BUT COSITORTO'S VERSION.
It has happened to me before, and also in this case specifically,
that when I take on a subject,
I suddenly become a point of reference in regards to it,
and that often creates space for others to contact me and pass on information.
THE SHARP LIVES OFF FOOLS, FOOLS LIVE OFF THEIR WORK
We obviously saw all of the tweets, and we were extremely outraged.
We were all very angry.
Our question was, how do they know?
Who are the people feeding them this information?
And why are they here?
WHOEVER PAID IN USD WILL RECEIVE ZOE CASH
It was all about following Cositorto's daily footsteps through Twitter,
and identifying who was who, and how they operated.
When my friends on Twitter started tweeting things out,
I began supporting all of their comments,
and I found support from them as well.
It was like, "Okay, let's keep going. I'm not alone."
I became the villain in the story. People had a lot of faith in Cositorto.
Hello, Sergio. I think what you're doing is shameful.
You have shown no mercy, and you refuse to reap what you sowed.
You caused me some serious damage
because you're manipulating people through a newspaper that, I suppose,
makes you feel powerful.
Unfortunately, I will have to take judicial action
against your newspaper, against you, and your co-op.
Don't take this as a threat. It's my right to do so.
He was very aggressive,
and he said things that were frankly out of line
because I was just doing my job.
Meanwhile, he would go to the media and say the exact opposite.
Most of the schools are just coaching schools, which is great.
But they were also designed and created in the last century.
It would be a milestone in the crypto world,
since currency is driven by usability and trust.
When I first started seeing Leo doing interviews on television stations,
I was ecstatic.
I was like, "Look at our leader, look at our director."
"There he is! Look, Mom! Change the channel, that's him!"
He would keep going.
He'd buy pages in big Argentinian papers, and people would think,
"Look, if El Diario Argentino, which is huge, is saying this,
why believe the Villa María newspaper?"
SPONSORED CONTENT
GENERATION ZOE WAS LICENSED BY THE NATIONAL SECURITIES COMMISSION
I developed a robot.
And a robot is nothing other than a system
made up of signals responding to mathematical and statistical models,
to predict how high and how low the market will go.
ZOE ROBOT
Rosa María was promising strong bots,
and that's when I started to disagree with him.
I said, "Leonardo, let's stick to 7.5% profitability."
"Let's not go higher."
That's when he said, "I am the owner of this company,
so I'll handle it."
"If I were to make decisions like you would,
the company would be done."
"That's why I'm the owner and you're not."
CHRISTMAS ROBOT DECEMBER 6TH THROUGH 13TH
In December 2021, they launched the last great investment,
the infamous Christmas bot,
which would supposedly duplicate all of your money in just three months.
So that's when an avalanche of money came in.
Just imagine, it was December. Christmas bonuses, New Year's, holidays.
People were desperate.
I think that must have been the biggest fund collection
that Zoe ever had with any bots.
That was it.
A snowball that kept growing as he promised more and more.
And people kept on believing him.
More and more illusion, more fantasy, more wanting, more and more.
It was like a balloon.
It just kept growing and growing, until...
it exploded.
While on the cross, Jesus said,
"Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they are doing."
I could open Twitter right now and read ten atrocities,
just read them, and that's it.
FUNNY THING ABOUT PYRAMID SCHEMES IS, SOME PEOPLE DO GET EARNINGS.
Many of our tweets were being written with a large dose of humor.
It was never about making fun of any of the victims.
It was only about ridiculing him.
COSITORTO IS THE HEN THAT LAYS GOLDEN EGGS.
Almost all of the material we would publish
was made up of footage produced by them directly.
We would obviously record the Zoom meetings
that Leonardo Cositorto would have every single night,
during which he would mostly complain about paid Twitter users
that were supposedly financed by the hidden powers
that intended to destroy Zoe.
This is just their style.
These characters paid for by God knows who.
They even have bots activated,
creating campaigns to spread information on social media and Twitter.
It really bothered me
because they were messing with something that was supposed to be ours.
We took it personally.
We started communicating amongst ourselves.
And then, little by little,
we built up what we decided to call a "Twitter troop."
I'M 100% ZOE
Our troop would basically create strategic plans,
and we would tweet in the middle of the night...
#ZOERESIST #BESTRONGZOE - #WEAREALLZOE
...before anybody else was tweeting so it would gain visibility more easily.
We needed to defend the place that we all had invested in
because if things went badly for the company,
things would eventually go badly for us too.
#DONOTMESSWITHZOE
JANUARY 2022
Around mid-January,
people obviously came over to ask about their money.
They wanted to withdraw their money, and it wasn't there.
And we were the ones who had to face them.
The thing that really began to make the entire structure fall apart
was that infamous Christmas bot.
When the time came to begin making those payments,
the money was gone.
Everybody wanted to cash out,
but the money was all invested in different kinds of businesses,
in lots of different places.
There was someone who I really trusted there,
so I went to him and I said,
"Tell me the truth,
because I'm the one facing people and putting myself on the line."
And he said, "You deserve the truth."
That's when he told me that the money was gone.
They couldn't find the money. They didn't know what had happened.
I opened the administration group chat on WhatsApp,
which included Cositorto and his right-hand men.
And I demanded an explanation.
And the administration said,
"Keep pushing people to invest. Let's stick with the bots."
"Keep telling people to give their money."
For goodness' sake, answer my question.
I sent them an audio message where I called them shameless,
and warned them that I'd tell people what was going on.
So they kicked me out of the administration group chat.
They kicked me out of all the group chats.
And that's when I sent my crazy voice messages
to the entire community.
The only culprit here is Cositorto.
He's got all the dough.
I've got voice messages from the vice president
saying that Leo's the one with all the cash flow.
THIEVES!
He's the one that has to pay!
JANUARY 8, 2022
Team, we're leaving. Here comes Maxi. We're off to Uruguay.
From Uruguay to Buenos Aires, from Buenos Aires to Mexico,
from Mexico to Colombia, and from Colombia to Buenos Aires.
The year's begun. Fasten your seat belts.
Maxi, come say hi!
I can't remember which Twitter user in particular
uploaded the video in which they're seen boarding the private jet plane
going to Uruguay.
So we got to see them, and had that image of them leaving the country.
ZOE LEADER LEFT THE COUNTRY WILL HE COME BACK?
Hello, team, I just wanted to come by
and greet you here from Santo Domingo.
The attacks against myself and the organization
have continued since this morning.
You know that these are coming from a model that has collapsed.
Their system resists and does not allow
for a new business model of entrepreneurship like ours to run.
We're not gonna stop planting seeds and sharing opportunities with each other.
It is important that we understand and support each other,
so that we can take steps forward as a community,
strengthening the organization.
At that point, we were still trusting Leo, listening to his side of the story,
and taking his words into account.
He urged us to stay together.
He said that they were trying to divide us and destroy the company,
and he said that this was expected in the short term.
But he said that we should be patient,
so up until that moment,
we were still defending and supporting the entire community.
Good evening, everyone.
Thank you for being online,
and for responding to the call.
We have around 8,000 to 9,000 people so far.
Amidst these circumstances,
it is extremely important for all of you to see
how we respond to these taunts and systemic attacks.
For example, right now there's a man on Argentina's social media
whose name is Beto, supposedly.
You can see how he's using a fake profile picture.
This is what he's posting right now,
and he's here on the Zoom call.
You have no idea who you're engaging with.
We should all learn about the word "relationship."
Primarily you, Beto, if that's even your real name.
You should learn how to relate with your inner self
and heal this hatred inside you,
which is sending a growing company to shit
with your crappy ways.
You've sold yourself to the powers that be for who knows how much money.
And to all these newspapers and journalists that are angry at the fact
that a new generation was born into the world.
What's behind this cryptocurrency pastor? Something? Or nothing at all?
COSITORTO IN THE MIDDLE OF CONTROVERSY
It became more and more frequent,
until it got to a point where Generation Zoe
was mentioned every day.
It felt like Generation Zoe was being called out a thousand times a day,
along with Leonardo Cositorto.
He set up a gigantic machine of scams through Generation Zoe.
There have always been scammers.
We all started feeling a tremendous amount of pressure
because it was all over the media now.
They were all talking about it and referring to it as a scam.
It's amazing how right at this moment on TV, for instance,
they're talking about scams and scandal.
I compare it to having a grocery store.
If a new grocery store opens a block away from yours,
and they post signs saying you sell expired vegetables and rotten meat,
then they start a full-on media attack,
there comes a point where the local people won't buy from you anymore,
and the business will eventually collapse.
Hello, leaders. Good morning and good afternoon.
I want to say hi to all of you,
and I want to share some key points that I believe should be very clear.
This is mainly about the steps we're gonna take today and tomorrow.
It's very important...
Instead of coming to terms with things and saying,
"Okay, this is it. We lost the money."
"We don't know how to pay back the people that first invested."
Their way out was to relaunch a new offer
that was even more tempting and offered even more earnings.
Become a part of this one and only bot, the only one left.
There is no other bot than this quarterly progressive bot
that offers 20, 25, 30, and 35%.
LAST ROBOT 4 PROGRESSIVE MONTHS 20% 25% 30% 35% TOTAL EARNINGS 110%
It was our way of supporting Zoe,
a way of showing our vote of confidence and trust in the company,
because by this time, they didn't have the liquidity
or the needed cash flow to pay for memberships for everybody.
So we decided to go all in on this last bot,
because it looked like it was going to be our last chance.
There wouldn't be another.
LAST ROBOT!
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My main concern was the need to procure money.
It didn't matter how much we had.
In those final moments, it was clear that the most important thing
was to get money in.
That should have been a warning sign.
It should have alerted us and made us realize that things weren't working.
There was skepticism.
At that point, there were people coming in to pressure us,
and they'd tell us off horribly.
Some of my coworkers just couldn't take it anymore.
They couldn't handle the strong emotions we were having to deal with.
They didn't want to come to work.
There were cars that were following us to our houses.
It started to get really scary.
This entire situation had turned into something very heavy.
Coworkers were being threatened.
Some of them were in the police force,
and one of my female coworkers was receiving nasty threats.
Things got a lot uglier, and there were acts of violence.
Some of the victims went to get their money.
They came to the offices in Nuñez, and they were armed.
And the whole thing explodes
when they close the offices in Villa María.
VICTIM'S VOICE
I'll keep it simple. I'm not going to wait for the company.
Until you give back what you took from me and my friends, I will never stop.
Got it?
You keep stalling and telling me to sell this and to sell that.
Telling lies and more lies.
I'm not a kid anymore.
If you don't care about your family, yourself, or anything else,
then I have no problem exposing you.
You don't even have the courage to just pick up the phone
and make a simple phone call, you motherfucking son of a bitch!
You have time until the 16th.
I came for the 30,000 bucks I put here.
♪ So messed up, I want you here ♪
I am done. I'm tired of it.
VICTIM'S VOICE
They managed to get into the offices.
♪ In my room, I want you here ♪
They tore the place apart, they hit people,
and some of them were armed.
#GIVETHEMONEYBACK
♪ Now we're gonna be face-to-face ♪
They made deals with five who were more enraged than us.
#ZOETHIEVES
♪ And I'll lay right down In my favorite place ♪
They took it, and here we are with no money.
Everyone here just wants our money returned to us.
ZOE DISMANTLES NEW OFFICE IN ALICANTE REPORTS OF PYRAMID SCHEME
♪ Now I wanna be your dog ♪
ZOE SPAIN: FROM LEADER'S "EXPONENTIAL GROWTH"
TO "I DON'T HAVE A DIME" IN JUST ONE YEAR
YRIMIA: "THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT KNOW WHERE ZOE'S MONEY IS ARE COSITORTO AND BATISTA"
Not even a follow-up call. Don't make me come for you at your house.
Everything's empty here. There's nothing left. They took it all.
#ZOESCAM
There are no computers, there's no money. The safes are empty. Not a single peso.
We worked on our own for the last week, without the leaders.
We closed on February 14th.
All of a sudden, the office in Villa María closed up without a warning.
They put up a sign with phone numbers, and it said,
"Call this number. We're gone."
Some of the company's investors would come to the newspaper
asking us what to do.
To be honest, we weren't exactly sure what we should tell them to do.
The only thing that we were able to suggest doing
was reaching out to the district attorney directly
because we knew that she was already working on this case.
At that point, we already had our case pretty well established.
We had our arrest warrants and search warrants
because two people had already identified the organization.
We even confirmed the place of residence for each of them.
We were waiting for the first victim to come forward.
The first victim finally came to us on February 17th.
There were actually three victims that came forward.
They told us they hadn't been paid.
What we decided to do immediately from there
is order the detainment of the Álvarezes.
We already knew that Cositorto and Batista weren't in the country,
so we decided to order the searches
on their other confirmed places of residence.
SEARCH
When we got to the addresses, no one was there.
They were empty.
They had already gone in
and emptied out the Zoe office in Villa María.
Why did they do that?
Because they knew that there was a federal police officer
who also worked as Claudio Álvarez's personal bodyguard.
JUAN GOMEZ WHATSAPP AUDIO
When we issued the search warrants,
this federal police officer warned Claudio Álvarez.
There's record of a call at 2:30 a.m. saying,
"They're going to search your house tomorrow. Leave."
"Give me my money back and go."
He demanded they return the money he had invested in Zoe, and so they fled.
A series of searches have been carried out today in Villa María
due to fraud reports filed against this organization.
These were ordered by District Attorney Juliana Companys.
That happened on a Friday.
On Monday, an international arrest warrant was issued for Batista and Cositorto.
ALERT
Breaking news.
Right at this very moment,
the international arrest warrant
made against the one and only Leonardo Nelson Cositorto has been issued.
For us,
that was the first time we had issued an international arrest warrant.
We hadn't had that pleasure, so to speak.
So we got in touch with Interpol.
We didn't know exactly where they were.
We knew Maxi Batista had left before the arrest warrant.
He'd gone to Mexico, and from Mexico to Spain.
MADRID SPAIN
Maxi, did you ever get the feeling
that Leo let go of your hand
and left you to your own devices?
BATISTA AGREED TO AN INTERVIEW WHILE BEING A FUGITIVE ON MARCH 18TH, 2022
I'm not in touch with Leo, but I'd like to know what he thinks of this.
What's he thinking?
What was he thinking when he said, "Everything's fine, keep going"?
Because, well, I...
I keep on wondering, how can this be happening, you know?
Where there's division, there's chaos.
And what happened in the company was,
there were a lot of people with a lot of power.
And those people with power,
they were the ones who manipulated everything.
The businesses, the money.
And, in handling all of it, they would take a lot of money.
A lot of people stole, and there were many betrayals.
I'm living my worst nightmare.
I've never felt what I'm feeling.
I know what dying's like
because
I felt like I died.
So I started to...
live differently because I understood you can be dead and alive all at once.
And I felt that my soul had died.
Four people are under arrest in the Zoe case.
Four were detained after turning themselves in
at the Villa Carlos Paz Judicial Unit.
To this date, four out of the seven fugitives on this case
have already turned themselves in.
These are Mr. Claudio Álvarez, Ivana Álvarez,
uh, Schamme Silvio, and Fermani Silvia.
Cositorto tried to pretend he was back in Colombia.
He posted a picture on his Instagram.
You could see him wearing some very expensive sunglasses
while swimming in a pool.
WE'LL RISE BACK UP IN APRIL
He tagged it in a certain spot in Colombia.
But when he had previously posted, there was a Zoom meeting
in which the background was very similar to a cabin complex
where they were supposed to build one of Zoe's relaxation centers.
So we noticed similarities between these backgrounds,
and we started thinking that Cositorto might be hiding there.
And he did not like this at all.
He came out quite angry, visibly angry,
on a Zoom call at the exact same location.
Hey, team. Well, I have to make this video to show you this,
so you can realize the place I'm in is nowhere near Cartagena de Indias.
I'm not that stupid, I'm not an idiot. So don't underestimate me.
I'm not about to be somewhere they can easily find me.
Besides, you're putting people's lives at risk.
Stop lying and slandering.
You've been harassing this community for over six months.
There are two things that have an impact on social media.
Outrage and humor.
I prefer to take things with humor and joke around.
And clearly, Beto Mendeleiev prefers that too.
WE ARE THE NEW GENERATION
We are going to launch the first point, which is the lands.
These lands, the legendary lands.
One day, they left the Zoom whiteboard open,
and therefore, anybody was able to draw on it.
Guys, would you please disable the whiteboard?
They drew everything from pyramids,
penises, and wrote "Beto lives" because at that point,
Beto Mendeleiev's account had been shut down.
You're sharing the screen, so you can disable it.
No, no. I'm not. I'm not the one sharing it.
It's being shared by somebody on James' team.
Thank you for being here.
- Thank you. - Despite the sabotage.
Thank you, yes.
Then later, during another presentation on a different day,
someone managed to get on camera with an avatar of an Egyptian pharaoh.
Please authorize Camilo León.
Cami, go ahead, you have the floor.
Hey, Leonardo.
I don't really know what else to say that hasn't already been said before.
And if anyone else has anything they want to add...
Cositorto said he was in Colombia,
because over Zoom he would say he was in Medellín.
But his phone was pinging off in the Dominican Republic.
Even though he was using a NAT gateway to log into Zoom through the dark web,
which is an underground internet network that is not visible to the average person,
and he would set it up to Spain, as he usually did,
his cell phone was being flagged in the Dominican Republic.
He didn't activate NAT while using his phone.
So it gave us his exact physical location.
COSITORTO CHARGED WITH FRAUD AND UNLAWFUL ASSOCIATION
We are now in direct communication with Leonardo Cositorto,
who is an active fugitive.
Cositorto, good evening.
I was wondering if you're able to tell us what your location is at the moment.
How's it going, Gustavo? Good evening, how are you?
It's nice to see you, and here we are.
- Please tell us-- - At the moment,
I'm in the Dominican Republic.
Why are you a fugitive of the Argentinian justice system, Cositorto?
I'm not a fugitive because I didn't flee from anywhere.
I was traveling.
I was on tour. We're present in 21 countries.
As for Maxi Batista,
we knew that he had been communicating with his daughter.
We issued a search warrant to raid his daughter's house,
and he was actually just talking on the phone with her
when we knocked on her door.
We ordered her to hang up the phone because we were performing the search.
At that moment, Batista's brother shows up and tells us
that Batista did not want his daughter to go through this.
It was that same day that he decided to come back to Argentina
and turn himself in.
There he is, Maximiliano Batista.
MARCH 21ST 2022
Are you going to say something, Maximiliano?
Is Cositorto turning himself in?
The money, where's the money?
As for Cositorto, what were their next steps going to be?
Interpol personnel, aided by Dominican Republic's Interpol,
began checking the backgrounds on his recordings.
Those backgrounds they saw were characteristic
of many beach house rentals.
So they started looking at beach houses through a rental agency
to figure out if there was a house that looked similar
to the house he was in.
They showed me the video, and there it was.
It was the exact same house that they had found through the rental company.
JUAN DOLIO DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Cositorto's attorney in Córdoba
states that his defendant is willing to come to justice.
But they demand the district attorney guarantee him certain privileges,
such as maintaining his freedom
and clarification of the crimes he's being accused of committing.
He kept moving to a different location
every three to five days.
He always remained within the beaches in Juan Dolio,
but he would stay in different places.
At that point in time, the authorities were closing in on Cositorto.
It was only a matter of hours
before they would finally be able to confirm the exact location
where he was hiding.
So Interpol does the same thing all over again.
They tune into all of his daily Zoom calls,
which he had made public, and they find the exact same house.
Dominican Republic personnel enter in the early morning.
The people from the Dominican Republic tell us they were very surprised
by what they saw.
They find him with another person, a man, who was responsible
for helping him rent the different locations.
I doubt he ever thought I'd be able to arrest him.
APRIL 4TH 2022
We woke up on April 4th to the news that Leonardo Cositorto
had been arrested in the Dominican Republic.
That's when our eyes went, "Wow! What happened?"
We realized he was really a fugitive.
If Interpol detains someone in that way, they are usually criminals.
So there was definitely something else going on that we did not know about.
He was extradited to Argentina,
and we saw him get brought in in handcuffs.
He looked like a completely different man to me.
We couldn't believe what we were seeing with our own eyes.
And that's when the veil began to come off, you know?
DISTRICT ATORNEY'S OFFICE
In this provincial court at Villa María's center,
Leonardo Cositorto is testifying before district attorney Juliana Companys.
The district attorney, Juliana Companys, detains you.
She abuses her power, abuses preventative custody,
and then says she's taking you to trial where you'll get five, eight, ten years.
But if you declare yourself guilty,
if you raise your hand and accept the facts,
she'll set you free in two to four years.
During my first encounter with him, he...
He was incredibly angry.
He faces me, and points at me like this.
I tell him he needs to respect me and that he should put his finger down.
And if he respects me, I'll respect him.
He was fuming and said it was my fault that his company, his mega company,
had fallen apart.
They dragged my name through the mud.
They slandered me.
They practically sanctioned the death of my reputation.
I think that a year ago, I could have been stabbed on the street,
I didn't keep anybody's money.
Mr. Cositorto has always maintained his position
of being a victim of the system.
Not only a victim of the economic system, but also of the judicial system.
176 FRAUD CHARGES
Mr. Leo Cositorto--
Sorry, Leonardo Cositorto, has plead guilty.
He was charged with 176 counts of fraud, and one for unlawful association.
Your politics, your corrupt businessmen,
the corrupt media that sells out, and the legal system.
Those are the real frauds in Argentina.
- You're not guilty? - Those four things.
I am one of the victims in this whole story.
In regards to his trading,
we discovered that it was actually only a demo.
In reality, there was never any actual trading.
Any broker can represent graphically what is going on in the market.
What yields returns for a broker
is making sure that the benefits represented on-screen
are available to be withdrawn.
It's safe to say now that what we were seeing in the Zoe broker
was just a simulation.
- How many people do you represent? - We have 20 victims and counting.
I have my entire team working on this.
What are their demands from Cositorto?
Well, what they're asking for is their money back, of course.
- How much money did they put in? - Some put in 5,000 or $8,000.
And there's one that put in $70,000.
Dollars?
I invested $3,000 in Zoe,
2,648 euros when exchanged.
We each put in 6,000 euros.
I put in $8,000.
That was for the Christmas bot, and 500 for a trust to start out.
And I've got friends that invested up to $200,000.
Colombia, Peru, there's Ecuador,
the United States, there's Mexico, Guatemala, Spain.
- And also Germany. - From Germany?
We estimate that, out of the $120 million
that the total fraud was worth,
only 10% of that amount was actually put into the legitimate market
and reflected in movements within the banking system.
The rest of the amount was put into the informal market,
and also into virtual wallets.
That money is in different tax havens,
where it can be reinvested and there are no regulations over it.
Considering all of the countries that they were present in,
I believe that a modest number would be around $250 million.
If anyone tells me that it was actually 400,
it wouldn't surprise me at all.
Mr. Cositorto considers both his business and what he did
to be valid.
He claims that he can demonstrate as such,
although he has not been able to do that yet in a legal sense.
His lawyers have not turned in any material
that could prove that this is true,
that the company made this much from trading,
and this amount from investments.
He has not provided anything.
And we have conclusive evidence against him, which he tries to refute,
but he lacks arguments and he ends up nowhere.
I'm often asked why I keep persisting with this.
Why do I still care if Zoe has fallen?
For Cositorto, nobody will ever believe in him.
No one will ever give him money again.
But there are many similar scams out there,
so I hope that this story can serve as an example
to create awareness in people,
so that they're more careful.
And the next time that someone comes offering a miraculous investment
with an impossible return,
they can remember something called Generation Zoe,
and a man named Cositorto.
Since the pandemic, scams like these have grown exponentially.
Especially virtual scams like this one.
The sentences are usually very mild, so nothing really happens.
Many criminals just walk out freely,
even though they might have scammed people for millions of dollars.
At this time, there is not a legitimate or strong enough sanction
that will keep them from doing it again in the future.
I believe that the possibility of being deceived
exists in each and every one of us.
And there will always be an organization similar to this one
trying to exploit our weak spots so that they can lure us in.
Throwing a line out to us and then waiting for us to take the bait,
because they know what position to put us in
to make us bite.
ICE CREAM - JUICE
The story of Zoe was a roller coaster.
Because at first,
it was very exciting.
But then, I also felt a
huge sense of frustration.
And there was no way
of turning back.
It felt something like,
I don't know, it felt something like...
a heartbreak.
It felt like my trust had been broken.
Like I was cheated out of my dreams,
and the illusions that filled me with life.
It was all gone.
I think we all went from love to hate at first.
Then anger, first at myself.
I was angry and kept wondering, "How had I fallen for this?" You know?
I felt terrible. Then I got angry at Leo.
EVERY BALL TURNED HAS A PRIZE
There was an atmosphere of abandonment, despair,
anguish, and sadness.
A lot of people were scared. Others were depressed.
Many people attempted suicide.
There were broken families, broken marriages.
People that had invested their inheritances, their homes,
they didn't have a place to live anymore.
They had literally nothing left.
COSITORTO GIVE BACK THE MONEY
WE WANT JUSTICE
To me, it makes no sense for any person
who has a minimal sense of humanity
to commit these merciless actions towards others.
COSITORTO GIVE US BACK OUR MONEY
It takes a sociopath.
BOUWER PRISON CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA
I don't feel responsibility for what happened.
A company that is constantly attacked and hurt?
How can it hold on?
How can it be reliable?
I never thought that Zoe was a scam.
Not even now.
I believe that the system and the world played a cruel trick on us.
And I believe that...
I'm paying for that trick being here.
To the victims, I can say that I'm sorry
and tell them that by June 2024,
if they allow me to work here,
if I have access to a public phone,
I can give it all back to them in one to three years.
I know I'm capable because it wouldn't be the first time.
I became a millionaire at 24.
I will simply keep going, time will pass.
Of course, I would love to be 35 years old again,
but I'm 53.
How long is this gonna last?
I don't know, but I am never going to raise my hand
and take responsibility for something I did not do.
The main accused parties in the Generation Zoe case in Villa María,
Leonardo Cositorto, Maximiliano Batista, Claudio Álvarez and Silvia Fermani
are in prison awaiting trial.
Rosa María González Rincón is on the run. Luis Yrimia is in Dubai.
The Zoe case has dozens additional accused around the world.
Many of them were prosecuted.
A lot of them are still working for MLM companies or created their own.