Chogan Group S.p.A.
A real Italian manufacturer with the lightest entry terms in this sector - free registration, no autoship, no annual fee and no enrollment bonus of any kind - whose founder was arrested in May 2024 and again in April 2025, with €355 million under preventive seizure and the company itself entrusted to a judicial administrator. Those are pre-trial measures. There is no conviction and no finding of liability by any court or regulator anywhere.
It costs nothing to register and the plan pays no recruitment bounty - but the filed 2024 accounts show a €22,459,167 net loss on €189,911,985 of revenue, no income disclosure exists in any of 90-plus markets, and the criminal proceedings against the founder remain wholly untried.
Can you actually make money with Chogan?
No, not as a network business, and the reason sits in the plan rather than in the newspapers. Every rank requires personally recruited lines - two at the bottom, three through the middle, five from Emerald upward - and no amount of selling substitutes for them. A consultant moving 10,000 euro of product a month with nobody underneath earns the dealer margin and exactly zero network commission. A monthly personal quota of 125, 187.50 or 312.50 euro then gates every euro of that commission, payable whether anybody else orders or not.
There is no income disclosure anywhere. Not in Italy, not in any of the other 90-plus markets the company says it serves, and not in any of the seven languages this was searched in. The rank tables circulating online that run from about 2,500 euro a month up to 105,000 are written by distributors and carry their own disclaimers saying they are not company material. What can be checked is the filed 2024 bilancio: 189,911,985 euro of revenue against a 22,459,167 euro net loss, in the same year as the seizure.
Now the part that genuinely works, because a good deal of it does. Registration is free. No autoship, no annual fee, no minimum monthly order, and the dealer margin is a flat 50% off catalog on a single unit with no volume condition. Four bottles recover the 60 euro kit and nine recover the 149.90 one. Somebody who only ever buys at 17.50 and sells at 35 has a small honest trading business and owes the plan nothing. Italian law adds a ten-day withdrawal right and a 90% repurchase of unsold stock within thirty days of leaving.
One thing has to be stated precisely rather than loudly. The founder was taken into pre-trial detention in May 2024 and placed under house arrest in April 2025, 355 million euro sits under preventive seizure, and the company itself is an investigated party entrusted to a court-appointed administrator. Those are pre-trial measures. There is no conviction and no finding of liability by any court or regulator anywhere. What it means for a consultant is that the customer base they build sits inside a business somebody else is now running under court supervision.
registration is free and there is no annual fee, no autoship and no minimum monthly order; an optional starter kit from €60 to €619.90 unlocks consultant pricing, and from 1 March 2026 you must generate 300 points (about €375 of purchases) every rolling six months to keep it
- An income disclosure, in some market, in some language. Ninety-plus countries and 160,000 claimed consultants have produced no median, no distribution and no zero-earner rate, so no figure attached to this plan can be tested by anybody standing outside it.
- Ranks that count sales instead of recruited lines. While every rung from Partner upward requires two, three or five personally sponsored people, the plan is paying for structure at the margin whatever the marketing says it rewards.
- Points that accrue on verified resale rather than on purchase. No retail-sales rule, no registered-customer requirement and no 70% equivalent appears anywhere, so the plan cannot tell a consultant who sold a hundred bottles from one who bought a hundred.
- A qualification bar that does not rise underneath the people already standing on it. The semester threshold went from 200 points to 300 on 1 March 2026, and the monthly personal gate has roughly quadrupled since the 2018 plan document.
That call is computed, not chosen - the rule reads three of the nine published dimension scores and is printed on the methodology page. It describes this company's plan and the figures it publishes about the people already in it. It is not a prediction about you, and nothing on this site is advice.
Legal status
LEGAL BUT UNDER LIVE, UNRESOLVED CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION - and the two halves of that sentence must be kept strictly apart. On the first half: no court and no regulator anywhere has found Chogan Group S.p.A., or its compensation plan, to be a pyramid scheme or an unfair commercial practice. No AGCM istruttoria, provvedimento, accepted impegni or consumer alert naming the company could be located; no consumer-protection or competition action naming it was found in Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Romania or the United Kingdom; no EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) alert naming the brand was located; and no trade-mark proceeding naming the company as defendant was located. On the second half: on 30 May 2024 the Procura della Repubblica di Trani, executing through the Guardia di Finanza of the Barletta-Andria-Trani command, obtained precautionary measures in Operazione "Paradise World" - custodia cautelare in carcere for the founder and two others, arresti domiciliari for a fourth, a six-month ban from entrepreneurial activity for a fifth, nine natural persons under investigation plus the company itself as an entity under D.Lgs. 231/2001, a €355,000,000 preventive seizure, and the entrustment of the company to a court-appointed amministratore giudiziario. The charges are criminal association aimed at tax fraud, money laundering and self-laundering, together with tax and bankruptcy offenses. On 3 April 2025 two of the men were placed under house arrest again, on an allegation that they had continued to manage the group in breach of the interdiction, with a further €18 million seized against invoices for objectively non-existent transactions. Every one of those is a pre-trial precautionary measure, ordered by a giudice per le indagini preliminari on a standard of gravi indizi di colpevolezza - a threshold for detention, not a finding of criminal liability. There is no conviction. No committal for trial, no Tribunale del Riesame outcome and no first-instance judgment could be located. The individuals are presumed innocent, and this report treats them as presumed innocent throughout.
Confidence: Medium
Primary sources fetched directly where possible. Everything we could not verify is listed at the bottom of this page by name.
Follow the money
An Italian manufacturer and wholesaler of fragrance, cosmetics, home-care products and food supplements, selling through self-employed incaricati alle vendite a domicilio under Law 173/2005 on a stairstep-differential plan. The catalog runs to roughly 4,000 SKUs; the fragrance line, branded Olfazeta, is sold by number rather than by brand comparison; the company files public annual accounts in Italy and reports shipping to more than 90 countries with 146 to 167 employees.
The entry terms are the best part and they should be stated first without hedging. Registration is free. There is no annual fee, no compulsory autoship and no minimum monthly order - confirmed independently in German, Latvian and Italian consultant sources. There is no enrollment bonus of any kind: six languages of plan documentation were read and not one described a payment for signing somebody up. The optional starter kit runs from about €60 to €619.90 and is product at consultant pricing rather than licenses or training, so a participant who resells it recovers the cost from about nine bottles of 70-millilitre fragrance. On top of that, Law 173/2005 art. 4 supplies a statutory 10-day right of withdrawal and an obligation on the company to buy back at least 90% of the cost of unsold stock within 30 days of termination, which bites whether or not the company advertises it. Measured on what the recruit is asked to hand over against a promise of return, this is one of the cleanest files graded on this site.
Then the criminal file, and every word of it needs its stage label. On 30 May 2024 the Procura di Trani obtained precautionary measures in Operazione "Paradise World": pre-trial detention for the founder and chief executive, the co-founder and the company accountant, house arrest for a fourth person, a six-month ban from entrepreneurial activity for a fifth, nine natural persons under investigation and the company itself an investigated party under D.Lgs. 231/2001. A €355,000,000 preventive seizure covered bank accounts and roughly 200 properties and expressly included the investigated company, which was entrusted to a court-appointed judicial administrator. On 3 April 2025 the founder and the accountant were placed under house arrest again on an allegation of continuing to run the group in breach of the interdiction, with a further €18 million seized. Prosecutors allege the principals were fictitiously classified as door-to-door sellers to obtain an effective IRPEF rate of about 18% against 43% - the same statutory container every ordinary consultant sits in. All of that is at the investigative and precautionary stage. There is no conviction, no committal for trial that could be located, no first-instance judgment and no finding of liability by any court or regulator anywhere. The defendants are presumed innocent. The company continues to trade under supervision.
The economics are the third element and they are the reason the numbers land where they do. No income disclosure exists in any market, in any language, so nobody outside the company knows what the median consultant earns. Points accrue when a consultant buys, not when a sale to a real customer is verified, and every rank requires a minimum number of personally recruited lines - 2, then 3, then 5 - so a consultant selling €10,000 a month with no recruits earns exactly zero network commission. A personal purchase quota of €125, €187.50 or €312.50 a month gates all network pay, and the semester activity requirement rose from 200 to 300 points on 1 March 2026. And the filed accounts show €189,911,985 of revenue for 2024 with a net loss of €22,459,167, against share capital of €150,000.
Where €100 of catalog-price product goes
Reconstructed from the published plan and the company’s own 2018 plan document. The dealer margin is trading profit on resale, not commission; the network figure is the theoretical maximum at the top rank, and the realized rate is far lower because the differential structure pays only the gap between adjacent percentage bands.
| Product | Price | Pays |
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| Registration as a consultant Free in every market checked, with no annual renewal fee located anywhere. There is no compulsory autoship and no minimum monthly order. This is genuinely the lightest entry graded on this site and it is the single biggest credit in the file. |
€0 one-time |
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| LITE Kit The smallest kit, positioned for own use and testing. Buying a kit is what activates consultant pricing; membership itself is free, which keeps the structure on the compliant side of the Law 173/2005 art. 4 prohibition on requiring purchase as a condition of participation - but only just. Itemised contents could not be retrieved for any kit. |
from €60 one-time |
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| OLFAZETA Kit The most-recommended entry kit, fragrance-focused. At the standard 50% discount it should contain roughly €300 of catalog-price product, so a participant who genuinely resells it recovers the cost from about nine 70-millilitre bottles at €35. |
€149.90 one-time |
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| GOLD / BRILHOME / PLATINUM Kits The larger kits, current from 1 March 2026. Worth noting the trend: the €60 entry point has held for six years, but a €619.90 top kit did not exist in 2020. The ceiling has risen even as the floor has not. |
€309.90 / €349.00 / €619.90 one-time |
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| Monthly personal active points quota 100 AP for the 4% to 8% bands, 150 AP for 12% to 16%, 250 AP for 23% and above. Payable whether or not anyone else in the organization orders anything. The 2018 company plan document set the equivalent gate at €50 to €75 a month, so it has roughly quadrupled. |
€125 / €187.50 / €312.50 recurring |
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| Semester activity requirement 300 points per rolling six months to keep consultant pricing, up from 200 on 1 March 2026, satisfiable through own use, customer orders or a combination. Reactivation after a lapse requires a minimum order of 350 points, about €437.50. |
≈ €375 per six months recurring |
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| Olfazeta eau de parfum, 70 mL (e.g. No. 16) €0.50 per millilitre at catalog, €0.25 at consultant price. The network commission on the same bottle is €0.70 at the 4% band and €5.34 at 30.5% - gross, before differentials. The dealer margin of €17.50 dwarfs any plausible network commission on the same unit. |
€35.00 catalog / €17.50 consultant per unit |
50% dealer margin |
| Olfazeta Luxury unisex, 50 mL, 30% essence (e.g. No. 129) €1.04 per millilitre. The stated 30% extrait concentration is above the 15% to 20% typical of designer eau de parfum and partly earns the price - though no independent laboratory verification of concentration could be located. |
€52.00 catalog / €26.00 consultant per unit |
50% dealer margin |
Who runs it, and what they ran before
Aged 51 to 52 at the time of the first arrest and resident in Barletta. Taken into custodia cautelare in carcere on 30 May 2024 on charges of criminal association aimed at tax fraud, money laundering and self-laundering. Placed under arresti domiciliari again on 3 April 2025 on an allegation that he had continued to take operational decisions in breach of the interdictive measure, without the knowledge of the judicial administration. Both are pre-trial precautionary measures. There is no conviction, no committal for trial that could be located and no finding of liability by any court. He is presumed innocent. Searches for any prior venture or prior legal matter before 2016 returned nothing at all - that is a gap in the record rather than a clean bill of health, and it is recorded as a gap.
Aged 48, of Taranto and resident in Bari. Named in the May 2024 custodial order and taken into custodia cautelare in carcere. Allegation stage; no conviction; presumed innocent. No prior corporate or legal history could be located.
Aged 49, of Barletta. Placed under arresti domiciliari in May 2024. House arrest is a precautionary measure, not a sentence; there is no conviction and she is presumed innocent.
The company accountant, aged 63 and not a company officer, was also taken into pre-trial detention in May 2024 and re-arrested in April 2025; prosecutors characterised him as "la mente del meccanismo fraudolento," the mind behind the fraudulent mechanism. That is a prosecutor characterisation in a press release, not a judicial finding, and it should be read as one. A sixth person, aged 26, received a six-month ban from entrepreneurial activity. The company itself is an investigated party under D.Lgs. 231/2001, Italy’s corporate criminal liability regime, and was entrusted to an amministratore giudiziario. Three material facts could not be established from free sources: the identity of that administrator, the current board, and the shareholder register - the last of which matters because the €355 million seizure expressly included the investigated company itself, so the beneficial control position as of 2026 is genuinely unclear. No public statement by the company addressing the arrests could be found in its own newsroom or anywhere else.
Registered address
Rome, Italy - registered office in Rome, operations at Barletta in Puglia
Start with the credit, because it is real and it is unusual in this sector: Italy requires companies of this form to file public annual accounts, and Chogan files them. Revenue, the profit line, headcount and the four-year trend could all be established from mirrors of the Registro Imprese without asking the company a single question - a material transparency advantage over the many direct sellers incorporated where nothing is filed at all. The filed series reads €67,861,279 of revenue and a €1,538,600 profit in 2022, €140,720,469 and a €2,408,278 profit in 2023, then €189,911,985 and a net loss of €22,459,167 in 2024, against share capital of €150,000 and a reported headcount of 146 to 167. Two stage labels belong on those figures. They are reproduced by commercial mirrors of the register rather than quoted from a certified visura or an auditor’s report, and three independent mirrors agree to the euro - strong corroboration, not an audit. And the nota integrativa that would explain the 2024 loss could not be retrieved, so no cause is asserted here. Since May 2024 the company has been under a court-appointed judicial administrator as part of the €355 million preventive seizure. It continues to trade, ship and recruit. Whether the judicial administration remains in force in 2026, and who the administrator is, could not be established from any free source.
The veteran's checklist
Eight questions that decide whether this is a business or a transfer mechanism. Same eight, every review.
| Question | Answer |
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| Who legally owns it? |
RED
Chogan Group S.p.A., Rome, share capital €150,000, converted from S.r.l. Since May 2024 it has been entrusted to a court-appointed judicial administrator as part of a €355 million preventive seizure. The shareholder register, the current board and the identity of the administrator could not be established from free sources.
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| What does it really cost? |
WATCH
€0 to register. A kit from €60 to €619.90 unlocks consultant pricing. No annual fee, no autoship, no minimum order - but €125 to €312.50 a month of personal purchasing gates any network commission, and 300 points (about €375) every six months keeps consultant pricing.
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| Published income disclosure? |
CONCERN
None. Searched in seven languages across every market and none exists. The rank-income tables in circulation are distributor-authored and disclaimed as unofficial. Nobody outside the company knows the median.
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| Regulatory action against the company, ever? |
OK
None located. No AGCM proceeding, no consumer-protection action in Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Romania or the UK, no EU Safety Gate alert, no trade-mark action naming the company. Eight years at scale with a clean regulatory record outside the criminal file.
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| What is the criminal case, exactly? |
RED
A tax file, not a consumer-protection or pyramid file. Pre-trial detention in May 2024 and house arrest in April 2025 for the founder and the accountant, nine indagati plus the company under D.Lgs. 231/2001, €355m plus €18m seized. All pre-trial measures. No conviction, no committal for trial located, no finding of liability. Presumed innocent.
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| Is the $590 million revenue figure real? |
WATCH
Not as a company figure. It is a trade publication’s estimate of retail volume, running at roughly 2.2× the filed statutory revenue in the years where both exist. The filed 2024 accounts show €189,911,985 of revenue and a net loss of €22,459,167.
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| Can you get your money back? |
OK
Yes, by statute. Law 173/2005 art. 4 gives a 10-day right of withdrawal from the consultancy contract and requires repurchase of at least 90% of the cost of unsold stock within 30 days. It applies whether or not the company publishes it. How the company implements it could not be checked - the terms could not be retrieved.
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| Merchant play or miner play? |
WATCH
Merchant at the margin, miner at the rank ladder. The 50% dealer margin on a single unit with no minimum is a genuine trading arrangement and it is the only cohort that reliably profits. But points accrue on purchase rather than verified resale, and every rank needs 2, 3 or 5 recruited lines.
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What has to be true for you to get paid
| To cover | You need |
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| Recover the €60 LITE kit from resale | 4 bottles €17.50 of dealer margin per 70 mL bottle sold at €35 catalog |
| Recover the €149.90 OLFAZETA kit from resale | 9 bottles achievable in the first month for most people with a social network - this is the honest, workable version of the business |
| Cover the €125 monthly personal quota from network commission alone | ≈ 3,125 points a month (≈ €3,900 of consultant-price team volume) at the 4% Partner band - about six times the 500 points that qualifies for the rank in the first place |
| Keep consultant pricing for a full year | 600 points (≈ €750 of purchases) 300 points per rolling six months from 1 March 2026, up from 200; a lapse costs a 350-point reactivation order |
Read this twice
The arithmetic here splits cleanly in two, and the split is the whole story. The retail half works. A 50% dealer margin on a physical product you can buy one unit of, with no minimum volume, no autoship and no annual fee, is an ordinary wholesale-retail arrangement: nine bottles clears the €149.90 kit, ten bottles a month at €35 produces about €175 of gross margin, and after samples, packaging, travel and payment fees roughly €142 a month for about twenty hours of work. That is below an Italian minimum-wage equivalent, but it is real money with no capital at risk beyond the stock on hand, and it uses none of the network plan - no downline, no points, no ranks. The network half does not work at the entry ranks, and it is important to be arithmetically precise about why. To be paid any network commission at all you must personally generate 100 active points a month, about €125 of purchasing at consultant price. At the Partner band of 4%, a qualifying team of 500 points - roughly €625 of network volume - pays about €25 a month gross, less differentials to any downline qualifying in their own band, less the 17.94% ritenuta. So the commission does not come close to covering the personal quota that unlocks it; it would take a team generating about 3,125 points a month, six times the qualifying threshold, before the commission alone covered the €125. Until that point the network plan is a net cost, not a net income, and the participant only breaks even by reselling the stock the quota obliges them to buy. Two further items belong in this sum and neither appears in any recruitment material read for this report. The first is the tax cliff. An incaricato alle vendite earning up to €5,000 net a year is taxed under a closed regime - a 22% flat presumed-expense deduction, then a 23% ritenuta a titolo d’imposta on the remaining 78%, an effective rate of 17.94%, final, with no partita IVA, no VAT and no INPS. That is genuinely favorable and it is one of the attractive features of Italian direct selling. The €5,000 is measured net of the deduction, so the gross ceiling is €6,410 of commission a year, about €534 a month. A Senior Leader at 12% on a 3,500-point network grosses roughly €525 a month before differentials. Cross the line and the participant must open a partita IVA, register with INPS gestione separata at contributions in the mid-twenties percent, and charge and account for IVA - permanently, even if income later collapses, with accountant fees of €500 to €1,200 a year. The plan therefore has a dead zone between roughly €5,000 and €12,000 of annual commission where advancing makes the participant worse off. The second is the exit. Law 173/2005 art. 4 gives a 10-day right of withdrawal from the consultancy contract and requires the company to repurchase at least 90% of the cost of unsold stock within 30 days. That right exists by statute whether or not the company publishes it - and the company’s own terms and conditions could not be retrieved, because its site returns HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, so how it is implemented in practice is unknown.
Run your own numbers
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Euros converted to US dollars at roughly $1.08 to the euro, because this calculator renders in dollars while the plan is written in euros - read every figure as an approximation of a EUR number. The retail side is the honest part of this plan: a consultant buys at a 30–50% discount and keeps the difference, so a customer spending about €50 a month is worth roughly €25, or about $27. The cost line is the activity requirement rather than a fee. Registration is free, there is no annual fee, no autoship and no minimum order - but from 1 March 2026 a consultant must generate 300 points a semester to keep the discount at all, which at roughly €1.25 of purchase per point works out near €62.50 a month, about $68. The network commission is excluded deliberately. It is paid on total point volume generated by purchases rather than on verified resale, and every rank above the entry tier requires a minimum number of separately recruited lines - two, then three, then five - so including it would model recruiting rather than selling. There is no income disclosure in any of the ninety-plus markets, so nothing on this slider can be checked against a company figure. Your own subscription cost of $68/mo is included.
What it costs to replace this yourself
The job to be done here is one of the most competitively supplied in European retail: smell like an expensive designer fragrance without paying designer prices. Every company named below is an ordinary, non-graded retailer, supermarket or fragrance house. Prices are 2026 and per-millilitre figures are rounded; sterling is converted at approximately £1 = €1.18.
| What they sell you | What you'd use instead | Your cost |
|---|---|---|
| Olfazeta 70 mL at catalog - €35.00 (€0.50/mL) | Lidl Suddenly / G. Bellini EDP, 75 mL - commissioned from established European perfume houses | ≈ €5.90-6.20 (€0.08/mL) |
| Olfazeta 70 mL at catalog - €35.00 | Aldi Lacura EDP, 75 mL - Cardinal Red takes a direct swing at Baccarat Rouge 540 | ≈ €7.05 (€0.09/mL) |
| Olfazeta 70 mL at catalog - €35.00 | Mercadona own-label equivalences, 100 mL, with published correspondence tables | ≈ €6-12 (€0.06-0.12/mL) |
| Olfazeta 70 mL at catalog - €35.00 | Zara Emotions and main range, 80-100 mL - the Emotions line developed with Jo Malone CBE | ≈ €15-30 (€0.15-0.30/mL) |
| Olfazeta 30 mL at catalog - €18.00 (€0.60/mL) | Any of the above at a third to an eighth of the price per millilitre | €5-12 |
| Olfazeta Luxury 50 mL, 30% essence - €52.00 (€1.04/mL) | Dossier, 50 mL extrait - publishes its designer reference openly | ≈ €27-45 (€0.54-0.90/mL) |
| Olfazeta Luxury 50 mL - €52.00 | ALT Fragrances, 50 mL extrait concentrations | ≈ €32-41 (€0.65-0.82/mL) |
| Olfazeta Luxury 50 mL - €52.00 | Dior Sauvage EDT, 100 mL, boutique price and frequently discounted online | ≈ €110 (€1.10/mL) |
| Olfazeta as a designer alternative | Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540, 70 mL - the thing being imitated | ≈ €300 (€4.29/mL) |
| Semester activity requirement - €375 every six months | Buying perfume when you want perfume | €0 |
| Monthly personal quota to unlock network pay - €125-€312.50 | No quota, no rank, no lapse, no reactivation order | €0 |
| Total as sold ≈ €435 in the first six months for a self-consumer on the LITE kit - about 750 mL of fragrance |
Total, built yourself ≈ €435 buys roughly 5,200 mL of supermarket EDP, or about 1,700 mL of Zara |
Price-to-value
On the mainstream 70-millilitre line the verdict is unambiguous: at €0.50 per millilitre it is roughly six times Lidl and two to three times Zara for the same job, and the 30-millilitre format at €0.60 is the worst value in the range. Two things genuinely cut the other way and both deserve saying. Against the direct-to-consumer clone houses - Dossier and ALT Fragrances - Chogan wins on price, and against the designer originals it is not close. And the Luxury line at a stated 30% extrait is a different product from a five-euro supermarket bottle whose standard criticism is two to four hours of wear; a buyer who wants all-day longevity is not being served by the cheapest comparator, and that is a real difference rather than marketing air. At the consultant price of €0.25 per millilitre the range is competitive with Zara, which is exactly why so many registered consultants are self-consumers who never sell anything. Buying at €17.50 what you would otherwise pay €35 for is a rational thing to do. It is just not a business, and the honest benchmark for the discount is the open market, not the company’s own catalog price.
Three operators, five horizons
Probability of cumulative net profit
Hover any point for median, top decile and bottom quartile.
The self-consumer
joins for the 50% discount on the LITE kit, never sells anything, holds the semester quota
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 3% | −€250 |
| 6 mo | 4% | −€435 |
| 1 yr | 5% | −€810 |
| 3 yr | 5% | −€2,300 |
| 5 yr | 5% | −€3,800 |
The part-time seller
OLFAZETA kit, 10-14 bottles a month to colleagues and friends, no downline, ~20 hrs/month
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 45% | +€180 |
| 6 mo | 55% | +€520 |
| 1 yr | 58% | +€1,200 |
| 3 yr | 60% | +€4,200 |
| 5 yr | 60% | +€7,000 |
The network builder
PLATINUM kit, holds the 150 AP quota, recruits and supports lines, ~60 hrs/month
| Horizon | P(profit) | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | 8% | −€600 |
| 6 mo | 10% | −€900 |
| 1 yr | 14% | −€400 |
| 3 yr | 18% | −€900 |
| 5 yr | 20% | −€1,400 |
Methodology note. These are MODELED outcome ranges, not claims, not company data and not a prediction about any individual. They have to be modeled rather than anchored, because no income disclosure exists for this company in any of the 90-plus markets it says it serves, in any language - which is itself the most important fact on this page for anyone trying to forecast an outcome. ANCHORED to published figures: the €0 registration, the €60 to €619.90 kit range, the 50% dealer margin, the €35 catalog and €17.50 consultant price on the 70-millilitre fragrance, the 100/150/250 monthly active-point quota at €125/€187.50/€312.50, the 300-point semester requirement and 350-point reactivation order effective 1 March 2026, the rank percentages and minimum-line requirements from the plan, and the 17.94% effective ritenuta on commissions under the incaricato regime. Also anchored to the company’s own two published numbers, which imply about €1,187 of purchasing per consultant per year across a claimed 160,000 consultants. MODELED by us: the proportion of each cohort in cumulative profit, the cohort definitions themselves, the resale sell-through rates, and the time cost. One calibration that cuts in the company’s favor: the part-time seller profile is genuinely positive at every horizon, because a 50% margin on a single unit with no minimum and no autoship is a real trading arrangement, and that cohort uses none of the network plan. One that cuts against: the self-consumer profile is negative at every horizon by construction, because the semester quota is a purchase obligation and the honest benchmark for the discount is the open market rather than the company’s own catalog price. Neither profile captures the risk that dominates the file - that the entire relationship sits inside a company under judicial administration, and the consultant owns none of it.
Where you are actually allowed to promote this
Platform policy reads, not verifications. Check every one before you spend a dollar - enforcement changes faster than the written policy does.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags
151The founder and chief executive was taken into pre-trial detention in May 2024
2The company itself is an investigated party and is under judicial administration
3€355 million under preventive seizure, and €18 million more in April 2025
4A second arrest in April 2025 for allegedly defying the first
5The alleged scheme abused the very legal status the participant occupies
6A €22,459,167 net loss on €189,911,985 of revenue in 2024
7No income disclosure exists, in any market, in any language
8Every rank requires a minimum number of personally recruited lines
9Points accrue on purchase, not on verified resale
10A personal purchase quota gates every euro of network commission
11The semester threshold was raised unilaterally from 200 to 300 points on 1 March 2026
12The equivalence model transfers the legal risk from the company to the seller
13The €5,000 tax cliff sits exactly where the mid-ranks pay out
14Not on the Italian self-regulator’s published effective-members list
15The widely repeated "+31% to $590M" is a trade estimate, not a company figure
Green flags
91Filed, public, multi-year accounts
2No enrollment bonus of any kind
3Free registration, no autoship, no annual fee, no minimum order
4Statutory participant protections that actually bite
5A real 50% dealer margin on a real physical product
6No securities exposure of any kind
7A clean regulatory record outside the criminal file
8Real manufacturing, real logistics, real employees, real end demand
9Part of the distributor field self-polices better than the company does
We would like to be wrong about this
Upward
- A published income disclosure with medians, modal earnings by rank and a stated percentage of consultants earning nothing - the single largest available upgrade, because it would replace the biggest vacuum on this page with data, and it would move participant economics several points on its own.
- Resolution of the criminal proceedings in the defendants’ favor, or discharge of the judicial administration and the preventive seizure - which is the only thing that lifts the ceiling, and would move the ownership score materially.
- A retail-sales-verification rule requiring a stated share of qualifying volume to be sold to registered non-participant customers, removal of the minimum-lines requirement from rank qualification, and a dated compensation-plan PDF and terms and conditions published on the company’s own domain with the withdrawal and buyback rights stated in the same document.
Downward
- Any conviction in the Trani proceedings, or an extension of the investigation to the compensation structure itself rather than the tax treatment.
- Any AGCM istruttoria under Annex I point 14 of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive or the Codice del Consumo, any consumer-protection action in another member state, or a trade-mark action naming this company rather than its resellers.
- Introduction of an enrollment bonus, a compulsory autoship or an annual renewal fee; a further increase in the monthly or semester point thresholds; or a second consecutive loss-making year.
Grade is D, score 4.67. The lightest entry terms in this sector attached to the most unresolved governance file - and every measure in that file is pre-trial, with no conviction anywhere.
Three things about this company are genuinely better than its reputation and they have to be stated without hedging, because the rest of the page depends on the reader believing this part. It costs nothing to register: no joining fee, no annual renewal, no autoship, no minimum monthly order. It pays no enrollment bonus of any kind - six languages of plan documentation, and not one payment for signing somebody up, which is uncommon enough in this sector to be the single strongest fact in the plan’s favor. And the exit is protected by statute rather than by the company’s goodwill: Law 173/2005 art. 4 gives a 10-day right of withdrawal and requires repurchase of at least 90% of the cost of unsold stock within 30 days, enforceable whether or not the company advertises it. Add filed public accounts, roughly 4,000 real SKUs, 146 to 167 employees, and product resold by third parties to buyers with no income motive whatever, and the honest description is a real manufacturer with unusually decent terms.
The governance file is why the grade is where it is, and it needs its stage labels on every clause. On 30 May 2024 the Procura di Trani obtained precautionary measures in Operazione "Paradise World": pre-trial detention for the founder, the co-founder and the company accountant, house arrest for a fourth, nine individuals under investigation and the company itself an investigated party under D.Lgs. 231/2001. A €355,000,000 preventive seizure included the company, which was entrusted to a judicial administrator. On 3 April 2025 the founder and the accountant were placed under house arrest again on an allegation of continuing to run the group in breach of the interdiction, with €18 million more seized. Prosecutors allege the principals were fictitiously classified as door-to-door sellers to be taxed at an effective 18% against 43% - the same statutory container every consultant sits in, which is what turns a distant governance story into a participant-facing one. And then the necessary sentence, which is not a formality: these are allegations, every measure listed is pre-trial, there is no conviction, no committal for trial that could be located, no first-instance judgment and no finding of liability by any court or regulator anywhere. The defendants are presumed innocent. The company continues to trade under supervision.
The economics are the third element and they are where a prospective participant should spend the most time, because they do not depend on how the criminal case turns out. No income disclosure exists in any of the 90-plus markets, in any language, so nobody outside the company knows what the median consultant earns. Points accrue when you buy, not when a sale to a real customer is verified. Every rank requires recruited lines - 2, then 3, then 5 - so selling alone earns zero network commission at any volume. A €125 to €312.50 monthly personal quota gates all network pay and the semester requirement rose from 200 to 300 points on 1 March 2026. The filed accounts show a €22.5 million loss on €189.9 million of revenue. And the "+31% to $590M" figure circulating in the trade press is an outside estimate of retail volume, running at roughly 2.2× the filed statutory revenue in the years where both exist - not the company’s revenue, and not audited. Meanwhile the one thing that does work is unglamorous: buy at 50% off, sell at catalog, keep €17.50 a bottle, and use none of the plan.
If you want the fragrance, price it per millilitre before you sign anything
The mainstream line is €0.50 per millilitre at catalog. Lidl is about €0.08, Aldi about €0.09, Mercadona €0.06 to €0.12 and Zara €0.15 to €0.30 for the same job. If you specifically want a high-concentration extrait with all-day wear, that is a genuine reason to pay more, and the Luxury line at €1.04 per millilitre partly earns it - but then compare it against Dossier and ALT Fragrances, not against the supermarket, and against Dior Sauvage at €1.10 per millilitre before you conclude the premium tier is a bargain. A consultant kit bought purely for the discount is a purchase obligation of €375 every six months, not a discount card.
Do the retail business and skip the network entirely
The one profile that reliably makes money buys the €149.90 kit, clears it in about nine bottles, sells ten to fourteen a month and keeps roughly €142 to €200 after samples, packaging and travel - using no downline, no points and no rank. The network plan adds nothing to that cohort and the monthly quota subtracts from it. If you are going to do this at all, be a small merchant, not a builder.
Never publish, forward or recite a list matching numbers to designer brands
This is the single most under-disclosed risk in the whole offer and nobody in the recruitment chain will tell you. Under L’Oréal v Bellure and the smell-alike authority that followed it in Spain and at the Tribunale di Torino, the comparison list is the unlawful act, there is no defense that it is true, and the liability lands on whoever publishes it - which is you, not the company. Get any instruction to "explain the equivalences" in writing, and read it as what it is.
Ask three questions in writing before you enrol, and keep the answers
One: is the judicial administration still in force, and who is the administrator? Two: where is the current, dated compensation plan PDF and the general terms and conditions, published on the company’s own domain - the site returns HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, so ask a human. Three: how does the company implement the Law 173/2005 art. 4 buyback, at what percentage, in what condition and over what window? If any of the three comes back vague, that is the answer, and it costs you nothing to have asked because registration is free.
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What we read
Every source below links to the document itself. Tier 1 is a primary record - the company’s own plan, policy or disclosure, a court filing, a regulator’s decision or an SEC filing. Tier 2 is a self-regulatory or secondary regulator record, tier 3 reporting or academic work, tier 4 an open-market price comparison. Where a document can be moved or withdrawn, an archived copy is linked beside it. If a link is dead when you try it, that is a correction we want.
- Chogan "Piano Crescita 2018" - official growth and compensation plan hosted on chogangroup.com: 50% consultant discount, stairstep differential ("differenza imprenditoriale") from 4% to 23%, Manager Zone company-turnover dividend, car bonus, and the €50/€75 monthly minimum personal purchase gate (PDF)
Chogan Group S.p.A. corporate storefront and legal footer, and the company’s official 2018 growth and compensation plan PDF hosted on its own domain - the highest-authority plan document obtained, giving the stairstep-differential architecture, the 50% dealer discount worked example (€33.00 catalog / €16.50 consultant), the car bonus, the turnover dividend and the then-current €50-€75 monthly personal purchase gate
Not established by this document: The corporate storefront and legal footer at chogangroup.com could not be retrieved directly (the site returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching), so no URL is given for the footer itself. The €33.00 catalog / €16.50 consultant worked example was not located in the retrieved plan text, though the 50% dealer discount it illustrates is stated there.
- Chogan "Piano Marketing 2018" - parallel edition of the same plan showing the 17%/23% variant of the qualification ladder and the €75 minimum personal purchase (third-party hosted copy)
- RegistroAziende - CHOGAN GROUP S.P.A. (P.IVA 07872640722), turnover and profit/loss 2022–2024: €67,861,279 / €1,538,600; €140,720,469 / €2,408,278; €189,911,985 / −€22,459,167
Filed statutory accounts as reproduced by commercial mirrors of the Registro Imprese (ufficiocamerale.it, fatturatoitalia.it, registroaziende.it, atoka.io) - 2022 revenue €67,861,279 and profit €1,538,600; 2023 revenue €140,720,469 and profit €2,408,278; 2024 revenue €189,911,985 and net loss €22,459,167; share capital €150,000; ATECO 46.45.00; headcount 146-167. Not certified visure and not an audit
Not established by this document: These are commercial mirrors of Registro Imprese data, not certified visure and not audited accounts, exactly as the report states. The ufficiocamerale.it and fatturatoitalia.it pages named in the prose were not returned by search; three equivalent mirrors plus a fourth carrying the REA number are cited instead.
- Aziende.it - Chogan Group S.p.a.: ATECO 46.45, share capital €150,000, 146 employees (2024), registered office Via Adriano Olivetti 24, 00131 Roma, CCIAA di Roma
- Atoka - Chogan Group Spa, revenue €189.9m (2024), trend +35.0%, share capital €150.0k, 50–249 employees
- CompanyReports.it - Chogan Group S.p.a., REA RM 1577890, codice fiscale and P.IVA 07872640722, ATECO 46.45
- La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, "Fatture per operazioni inesistenti, interdetti ma continuano a gestire le società: arrestati in due" (3 April 2025) - Paradiso and Scricco placed under house arrest for managing companies under judicial administration; €4m of false invoices in 2023; €13.7m issued as door-to-door sellers at an effective 18% against a top rate of 43%
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, 30 May 2024 and April 2025; Telesveva; Networker Magazine; Barletta News24City, 3 April 2025; Vivere Barletta - Operazione "Paradise World", the five precautionary measures, the nine indagati and the D.Lgs. 231/2001 position of the company, the €355,000,000 preventive seizure and the judicial administration, the alleged 18% against 43% IRPEF mechanism, and the April 2025 re-arrests with a further €18 million seized
- Barletta News24City, "Ai domiciliari titolare e commercialista della Chogan Spa" (3 April 2025) - nine indagati in the original case, three jailed, €355m seized, and a further €18,000,000 preventive seizure ordered by the GIP of Trani
- Ore12, "Operazione 'Paradise World' della Guardia di Finanza. Frode fiscale, sequestrate 355 milioni" (30 May 2024) - full Guardia di Finanza statement: five indagati, seizure of over €355,000,000, the D.Lgs. 231 administrative-liability charge against the company, and the 18% IRPEF mechanism against the 23% lowest personal band
- Quinto Potere, "Frode fiscale con fatture false, 4 arresti a Barletta" (30 May 2024) - GIP Anna Lucia Altamura's custody order; named indagati Michelangelo Paradiso, Liborio Scelzo, Pietro Luigi Scricco, Arcangela Fumarulo and Christian Scelzo
- PugliaViva, "Maxi frode fiscale da 355 milioni di euro: coinvolta una società di Barletta" (30 May 2024) - names Chogan as the società per azioni concerned
- ANSA via EspansioneTv, "Frode fiscale con fatture false, gip 'indagati spregiudicati'" (30 May 2024) - ten natural persons under investigation plus one cosmetics company
- Legge 17 agosto 2005, n. 173 - "Disciplina della vendita diretta a domicilio e tutela del consumatore dalle forme di vendita piramidali", full consolidated text (arts. 1–7)
Legge 17 agosto 2005 n. 173 (parlamento.it, full text) with an article-by-article practitioner summary - art. 1 definitions, art. 3 tesserino and the €5,000 threshold, art. 4 the ban on requiring purchase, the 10-day withdrawal, the ≥90% buyback within 30 days and the executed-transactions rule, art. 5 the pyramid ban, art. 6 presumptive indicators and penalties of six months to a year or €100,000-€600,000
- Legge 17 agosto 2005, n. 173 - official publication, Gazzetta Ufficiale Serie Generale n. 204 of 2 September 2005 (in force 17 September 2005)
- Legge 173/2005 on Normattiva (portale della legge vigente) - currently-in-force consolidated version
- Directive 2005/29/EC (Unfair Commercial Practices Directive), consolidated text - Annex I point 14, pyramid promotional schemes
Directive 2005/29/EC Annex I point 14 and its transposition at arts. 20-26 of the Codice del Consumo (D.Lgs. 206/2005), with CJEU authority on the cumulative three-limb test (4finance, C-515/12; Loterie Nationale, C-667/15); AGCM public case releases and press archive, searched for any proceeding naming the company - none located
Not established by this document: No URLs were retrieved for the two CJEU authorities on the cumulative three-limb test (4finance UAB v Valstybinė vartotojų teisių apsaugos tarnyba, C-515/12, and Loterie Nationale, C-667/15), nor for arts. 20–26 of the Codice del Consumo (D.Lgs. 206/2005). The AGCM finding is a negative one - a search of AGCM case releases returned no proceeding naming Chogan - and a negative finding has no URL to cite.
- Commission Notice - Guidance on the interpretation and application of Directive 2005/29/EC (2021/C 526/01), §3.2 Pyramid schemes - Annex I No 14 (PDF)
- Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 on cosmetic products - full text including art. 4 (Responsible Person), art. 11 (Product Information File) and art. 13 (notification to the CPNP)
Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 arts. 4, 11 and 13 with the European Commission CPNP user manual and an Italian practitioner summary - Responsible Person, Product Information File, and CPNP as a notification portal that involves no review, assessment or approval; EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) searched for any alert naming the brand - none located
Not established by this document: The European Commission CPNP user manual and the Italian practitioner summary were not located. The EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) search is a negative finding - no alert naming the brand - and has no citable URL.
- Judgment of the Court (First Chamber), 18 June 2009, L'Oréal SA and Others v Bellure NV and Others, Case C-487/07 - full text (PDF)
L’Oréal SA v Bellure NV, Case C-487/07 (CJEU, 18 June 2009), applied by the Court of Appeal at [2010] RPC 23; Directive 2006/114/EC art. 4(g) as transposed by D.Lgs. 145/2007; the Spanish smell-alike line through the Alicante EU Trade Mark Court and the Provincial Court of Alicante to the Supreme Court, including the renumbering remedy; Tribunale di Torino (Business Division) on equivalence tables in the Chanel case; art. 20 Codice della Proprietà Industriale and art. 2598 no. 2 Codice Civile
Not established by this document: No URLs were retrieved for the Court of Appeal's application of the CJEU ruling at [2010] RPC 23, for Directive 2006/114/EC art. 4(g) or its Italian transposition at D.Lgs. 145/2007, for the Spanish smell-alike line (Alicante EU Trade Mark Court, Provincial Court of Alicante, Tribunal Supremo, including the renumbering remedy), for the Tribunale di Torino decision on equivalence tables in the Chanel case, or for art. 20 Codice della Proprietà Industriale and art. 2598 no. 2 Codice Civile.
- Summary of the judgment in Case C-487/07, L'Oréal v Bellure - operative findings on Art. 3a(1)(g) and (h) of Directive 84/450 (comparison lists and "imitations or replicas") (PDF)
- Case C-487/07 - reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division), England and Wales, 5 November 2007 (the five referred questions)
- OJ C 180/6 (1 August 2009) - official notice of the judgment in Case C-487/07 (PDF)
- Riccardo Di Gasparro, "Il piano marketing Chogan Group: la guida" - independent distributor rendering of the qualification ladder: 4% from €50, 6% from €200, 9% from €600, 12% from €1,300, 17% from €3,500, 23% from €7,000
Current compensation-plan reconstructions cross-checked across four independent distributor renderings in three languages (Latvian, French, German) and agreeing on every number - the rank ladder from Partner (500 points, 4%) to President (15,000,000 points, 35%), the 100/150/250 monthly active-point gate, the 2/3/5 minimum-lines requirement and the 0.80-points-per-euro conversion; plus the German consultant documentation of the 300-point semester rule effective 1 March 2026 and the 350-point reactivation order
Not established by this document: The four distributor renderings in Latvian, French and German that the report relies on were not individually located, and no source was retrieved for the current rank ladder from Partner (500 points, 4%) to President (15,000,000 points, 35%), the 100/150/250 monthly active-point gate, the 2/3/5 minimum-lines requirement, the 0.80-points-per-euro conversion, the 300-point semester rule effective 1 March 2026 or the 350-point reactivation order. The Italian renderings cited above corroborate the older percentage ladder and the 50% discount only.
- Riccardo Di Gasparro, "Tutto sull'azienda di network marketing Chogan Group" - 50% consultant discount, network bonuses between 4% and 23%, car bonus at manager level
- Filippo Martin, "Chogan Recensione: Cos'è, Piano Compensi" - independent rendering giving 50% on direct sale and 3%–20% on downline sales
- Trustpilot company profile - Chogan Group (www.chogangroup.com), TrustScore 3.0 across 1,161 reviews; "Hasn't replied to negative reviews"
Company storefront and authorized reseller price lists - Olfazeta 70 mL at €35.00, 30 mL at €18.00, Luxury 50 mL 30% essence at €52.00, collagen face cream at €26.90, Brilhome degreaser at €15.90, SKINAIL collagen at €139.00; kit range €60 LITE / €149.90 OLFAZETA / €309.90 GOLD / €349.00 BRILHOME / €619.90 PLATINUM; Trustpilot company page at 3.0 across 1,161 reviews
Not established by this document: No URL was retrieved for the Chogan storefront or authorized-reseller price lists carrying the individual prices in the report (Olfazeta 70 mL €35.00 and 30 mL €18.00, Luxury 50 mL 30% essence €52.00, collagen face cream €26.90, Brilhome degreaser €15.90, SKINAIL collagen €139.00) or for the five starter kits (€60 LITE, €149.90 OLFAZETA, €309.90 GOLD, €349.00 BRILHOME, €619.90 PLATINUM). chogangroup.com returns HTTP 403 to automated retrieval.
- Trustpilot Italy locale view - Chogan Group, 2,9 across 1.136 recensioni
What we could not get
- EBITDA and the balance sheet, for any year. All four Italian data services paywall it; one returned a 404 and another a 403 to automated retrieval. The nota integrativa that would explain the €22.5 million 2024 loss could not be retrieved either, so no cause for the loss is asserted here - the obvious hypothesis, a provision recognizing the tax assessment, is unverified speculation and is treated as such.
- The company’s own general terms and conditions, consultant agreement, and the current dated compensation-plan PDF. The company’s site returns HTTP 403 to automated retrieval and the terms page timed out repeatedly. Say precisely what that means: these documents could not be retrieved, not that they do not exist. The plan figures on this page are reconstructed from four independent distributor renderings in three languages that agree on every number, anchored to the company’s own 2018 plan document for the architecture.
- Itemised starter-kit contents for any of the five current kits. Kits are described by theme rather than by SKU on every accessible source, so the €149.90 kit is assumed to hold roughly €300 of catalog-price product at the standard 50% discount - an inference, not a fact. Free-shipping thresholds, car-bonus and turnover-dividend amounts, and Ambassador program thresholds are likewise unretrieved.
- Any development in the criminal proceedings since April 2025. No committal for trial, no Tribunale del Riesame outcome on the custodial measures or the seizure, no first-instance judgment, no reported release, and no confirmation of whether the judicial administration remains in force in 2026. The absence of reported follow-up is normal for Italian tax proceedings of this scale and is emphatically not evidence that the case was dropped - but it means this report cannot tell a reader how the case stands today.
- The full visura camerale, the current board, the shareholder register and the group perimeter. Free mirrors withhold directors and shareholders. The €355 million seizure is far larger than the company’s own filed revenue, which strongly implies a wider group including real property that could not be mapped. Any prior venture or prior legal matter involving the founders before 2016 also returned nothing - a gap in the record, not a clean bill of health.
- SEARCHED AND NOT FOUND - and these belong on the page as green flags rather than as gaps. No AGCM proceeding of any kind naming the company: no istruttoria, no provvedimento, no accepted impegni, no consumer alert. No EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) alert naming the brand. No trade-mark proceeding naming the company as defendant. No consumer-protection or competition action in Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Romania or the United Kingdom. For regulators of that visibility, in a market that size, sustained absence is itself a finding of a kind.
- Whether the company issues the numbered tesserino di riconoscimento required by Law 173/2005 art. 3, and how it implements the art. 4 buyback in practice. The statutory rights exist regardless; the company’s implementation of them could not be checked. The personal active-points threshold is also reported inconsistently across sources at 80, 100/150/250 and 500 - the 100/150/250 series is the most consistently reported and is what is used here.
- DISPROVED RATHER THAN UNVERIFIED - the widely repeated "+31% to $590M". It is a direct-selling trade publication’s estimate, never reconciled to a filed bilancio, and across 2022-24 that publication’s series runs at roughly 2.2× the filed statutory revenue because it measures retail volume rather than turnover. The filed accounts say €189,911,985 for 2024, with a €22,459,167 net loss. Put both figures side by side: the growth direction is right at the revenue line, up 34.9%, and the profit direction is catastrophically wrong. Also assessed as probably incorrect: a widely cited English-language description of a level-based plan paying 10%, 5% and 3%, which is inconsistent with the company’s own 2018 document and with every non-English reconstruction.
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This report was researched and written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, working from primary documents - Chogan’s own compensation plan, its policies and procedures, its terms of service, its income disclosure statement where one exists, and its regulatory and self-regulatory file. It was scored against nine weighted dimensions that are published in full, with their weights, on the methodology page.
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