Here's the latest news from PCI
Hello,
Here's the latest news from PCI. Please pass this along to your downline that are not on my email list. Will keep you up todate as I hear more.....not good news for the Canadians due to all the red tape here.
Thanks Donna
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Dear PCI Associates,
I would like to bring you all up to date with news since our last PCI email. Today is February 17th 2006.
Last Friday, February 10th 2006 Cory Lewis (The good guy Barrister), our Canadian MLM legal counsel, and I made the final changes to the Canadian PCI plan; it went out on that day so Mr. Brian Lemon from Industry Canada would have received it that Friday afternoon. Our legal counsel also sent a copy to the RCMP and Martine Sirois in Gatineau, Quebec (Industry Canada).
On Sunday February 12th 2006 we had two RCMP officers arrive at our residence and issued us with charges. Donna was issued with one charge of section 206 criminal code act, managing an illegal scheme, I received three charges, one section 380 fraud over $5,000, 2nd & 3rd 206 (1) (a) and (e). You can imagine what we were feeling with regards to these charges.
I would like to recap on PCI:
In March 2005 PCI hired one of the what we were lead to believe was on of best USA MLM lawyers Mr. Ted Lindauer who has set up 2,500 MLM companies (where are they now?), he approved all our information, materials also our website 100% worldwide. He assisted PCI in setting up its USA Corporation also assisted in setting up the Canadian PCI Corporation. We followed all Mr. Ted Lindauer’s guidelines in promoting PCI in Canada; I even sent information to Jean Nesbit at the Victoria Better Business Bureau. Also I went to the local RCMP to introduce myself and PCI to Staff Sergeant Bill Gibbons and also left a disturbing email that was sent to us. PCI has always had an open door policy to everyone and was available to answer any questions or queries. You all know that I personally presented all the Courtenay and Comox seminars and some of the Nanaimo ones.
On November 24th 2005 Staff Sergeant Bill Gibbons called me and asked if I would like to go down to the police station and that he had some information for me, I thought it was they had managed to track down the person that sent the disturbing email. On arriving at the police station Mr Gibbons greeted me in a pleasant manner as he had done so in the past and gave me a letter from his head office. The letter was a cease a desist notice saying that the PCI business plan that we were promoting in Canada was not legal and did not comply with Canadian law, the letter also suggested that it would be prudent to seek Canadian legal counsel in this area. After receiving this letter I contacted Mr. Cory Lewis, a Canadian MLM lawyer (The good guy Barrister), within a week after receiving the letter from the RCMP. Mr. Cory Lewis (The good guy Barrister) called the RCMP in order to find out why PCI did not comply after our USA lawyers had approved the plan worldwide. The response from the RCMP was:
1. We could not promote a foreign lottery in Canada (give lottery numbers to our Associates in the form of bonuses).
2. They felt our online magazine cost was too high at $24.95
3. PCI needed to be approved by Industry Canada.
I immediately told our Canadian counsel that we would drop the section promoting a foreign lottery and not give Canadians pooled lottery numbers in the form of bonuses, also I dropped the cost of the online magazine to Canadians to $8.00, one third of the original cost. The final issue was to comply with Industry Canada and this is where Mr. Cory Lewis (The good guy Barrister) said he would make all the necessary suggestions in order for PCI to comply in Canada.
Since we received the letter from the RCMP we posted a legal notice on our website saying that the Canadian plan was under revision with our Canadian and USA lawyers in order to comply in Canada. We have worked extremely hard since then in doing this sparing no expense.
Also, since this time we have told all Canadians that they would not be receiving pooled lottery numbers in the form of bonuses, the magazine cost for Canadian subscribers had been reduced to $8 and that we were working on the new Canadian PCI plan in order to comply with Industry Canada. All our Associates understood and accepted that this was needed before PCI could launch.
The only other two issues we had were Push72 and Uniclear. These two companies worked out of the same offices.
Push72, the software company that kept promising to complete our project, was now 5 months behind the agreed written contract I had with them. They were constantly making excuses and had full control of the DVD production, manufacturing and selling them. They collected all the funds and mailed the DVDs to Associates, which was a complete mess up.
Uniclear was the payment transfer company that we were going to use in order for PCI to receive and make payments to our Associates and magazine subscribers.
Numerous Associates and myself were not happy with Uniclear; they did not live up to their promises: the highest security in the marketplace, up to 4096-bit encryption system that could not be hacked into. Uniclear told many of Associates at public meetings that banks only run on 128-bit encryption system and that millions of dollars went missing from people’s online bank accounts in the past 6 months due to hackers. Uniclear also told Associates they could fund their Uniclear bank accounts through the TD bank first and then after Uniclear closing their account with the TD bank they told our Associates to use the bank of Montreal which then Uniclear decided to no longer use. This was a big concern for our Associates. Uniclear also promised that Associates could fund their Uniclear accounts via a credit card, this was promised 4 months ago and this never happened. Also Uniclear opened a UK bank account at Barclays, this is now also not available for Associates to use. Associates could only use the standard 128 bit encryption with Uniclear because they told us the new Java software conflicted with their operating system, so no Associate to my knowledge ever could use the high encryption that they sold us on. During the Christmas and New Year period we all understood from Uniclear that someone managed to access their system, shutting things down and someone was moving funds around within Uniclear. PCI had a number of calls about these issues and some Associates could not locate their funds within Uniclear, also many could not access their accounts.
At 10:00 am on January 13th 2006, I had arranged with Push72 that our website would be live on Monday the 16th January and that due to all the delays, we would move everything over to our software company in the USA (MLMTC). The owner of Push72 was not at the office for our meeting nor the Uniclear owner to discuss the problems. I asked the secretary to have both owners contact me immediately. I left 6 messages for both of them over the next 2 days. By Sunday lunch time I still had not received any contact from them, so I sent Uniclear an email outlining my concerns and that I would be closing our PCI Uniclear accounts with them also I would be notifying all my Associates to do the same if they were unhappy with the services that Uniclear provided. I did receive an unpleasant email back that afternoon from the owner. In my email to him I stated that if any PCI Associates wanted to close their accounts then hopefully he would handle this in a professional and prompt manner and not charge them for doing so, as Uniclear did not provide the services they had promised. A copy of this is available if anyone wishes to view his attitude.
The following morning of January 16th 2006, to our amazement, Push72 and/or Uniclear accessed our website, shut all PCI emails and content down and posted a notice, stating that if anyone wanted to close their Uniclear account they could do so but the cost would be $12, but Uniclear suggested to all PCI Associates that for 50 cents they could transfer their funds into the PCI corporate account. They displayed our PCI account number without our permission, a breech of securities & confidentiality. They had not informed us that they were doing this either, we felt that it was totally unprofessional and unethical. I immediately contacted our lawyer Mr. Cory Lewis (the tiger lawyer) and he assisted me in removing the hosting and domain name from Push72, parked it and then transferred it over to MLMTC. Donna emailed the owner at Uniclear and the owner at Push72 and told them to remove this notice immediately or we would have the RCMP go to their offices, they then did indeed remove this from the website. Donna also sent an email out instructing Associates not to transfer their monies to that account! Donna and I met the owner of Uniclear at his office at 2:00pm that afternoon to discuss what was going on. He told Donna and I that he had posted this letter because he was angry that he had lost the PCI account?. We also asked him to check our Uniclear account to make sure no one had transferred funds into the PCI account. When he tried to pull up our account he was unable to do so, so he went to the office next door and came back and said that his son was upgrading the corporate accounts and that they would be up in 10 minutes!! We waited and they indeed came up showing that no funds had been deposited into this account. We did notice that our two debit cards had been funded one for $80 and the other for $88, we asked him who had funded these cards as we did not, we also noticed that it said the card funded by him. He stated that he had done it! I asked why he did this and he did not reply, he simply said he would have the funds moved back into our account.
Uniclear's owner suggested to Donna and I that it would be the best for PCI Associates to load their debit cards for $1.50 and take their funds out this way. Several people tried doing this and when they went to draw the funds from the machine, it told them that no funds were available. He told our Associates that people could draw up to $50,000 a day or $100, 000 a month from these cards. Many of our Associates’ cards never worked, and they were charged $10.00 for these cards.
Over the period of the next week a great deal of Associates were managing to withdraw their funds with a charge of $12.00 but many people tried contacting Uniclear and received no response.
On January 27th 2006, I had a call from the RCMP and said they had a search warrant to search my property and seize all PCI paperwork, information computers and other equipment. I told them that they could take whatever they needed to take. We let them in and cooperated with them. They told Donna and I that we were not under arrest that this was an investigation and would we mind going to the police station and making a statement. Donna and I agreed to do so and assisted them with their enquires. The following day RCMP (Jeff Parkes) came out to see us and asked if they could have permission to access all the data on PCI’s computers, I told him he could have full access to any of our information, we had nothing to hide. I asked Jeff Parkes if I could go out and purchase new equipment, i.e. computers he said yes and also said we were free to do what we wanted to do and that we had not been charged. I also asked if I could hold a meeting on the following Tuesday and Wednesday in Courtenay and Nanaimo in order to tell all PCI Associates what had happened, he again said we could do what we like and that we had not been charged. We also tape-recorded these 2 meetings.
On February 1st 2006, Push72 asked if we would go in and meet them, so Donna, Robert Terris, an Associate, and I went to the offices of Push72/Uniclear. I asked the owner of Push72 if he had any problem with me recording the meeting, he agreed to this. He admitted to us that they indeed had hacked into our site and posted the information. He wanted Donna and I to sign an agreement saying that we would not sue him or his family etc, in return he would waive the final bill owing of almost $20,000. Our lawyer instructed us not to pay the outstanding bill as the contract we had with Push72 was over 5 months late and less than half of the work was complete.
I have written to Push72 with regards to the above, and in order for MLMTC (good guys) to pick up where Push72 left off it would cost approximately $30,000. This is without any of the other expenses it has cost us. We have requested that Push72 cover the costs of $30,000 and give a written apology for all the delays and problems that they created. I have not heard back from them to date.
For all of you that know Donna and myself you know that we have been upfront with everything we have done, we have made all they necessary changes that were asked of us in order to comply with Industry Canada. You all know that I have never taken a cent off anyone, and told people so many times that we would not launch until we had approval from Industry Canada. By now many of you have seen the RCMP and press releases, stating that people were investing money into PCI and that the RCMP had seized Associates funds from Uniclear before they went missing. If the RCMP had left Uniclear to credit everyone then nobody would be now waiting and wondering where his or her funds are. It’s my understanding that the Receiver General is holding your funds.
We spent three hours with our legal counsel in Victoria on February 15th 2006 and he is fully aware of what’s happened. He will be working with Mr. Ted Lindauer and Mr. Cory Lewis (The good guy Barrister) in order to resolve these issues. Donna and I have done everything we could have in order to comply with all the necessary requirements to comply to Canadian law.
Finally, yesterday, February 16th 2006, Mr. Cory Lewis (The good guy Barrister) called and said Industry Canada has returned our application for Industry Canada approval due to the on going PCI investigation, and yet last week Industry Canada was going to review it.
It looks to me that someone has put pressure on Industry Canada.
Donna and I would like to apologize to all of our Associates for all these unnecessary issues that have arisen, we simply wanted to offer everyone an opportunity to be part of PCI at no cost until launch and we had Industry Canada approval. It’s amazing that the RCMP have spent hundreds of thousands of Canadian taxpayers money since June on this witch-hunt, when all they had to do at any time was ask PCI if they had questions.
Where do we go from here? Well at this stage we are waiting for guidance from our legal counsel, hopefully we can put all this behind us and have Industry Canada approve our plan when the justice system has done their part, so that all Canadians may move forward and be part of this amazing new company.
Kind regards,
Martin Grant Blackwell, CEO
Platinum Choice Inc.
