Darren Yaw is running around trying to hide his Guardian Capital AG Ponzi past.

Cue all manner of gaslighting, starting with a bunch of bogus DMCA takedown notices.

I loosely keep track of DMCA takedowns filed against BehindMLM. Anything we publish is protected by fair use, but it can be interesting to see
who’s trying to hide what
.

Back on December 11th a
DMCA notice was filed against BehindMLM
on behalf of Chen Chiu.

I didn’t recall the name and figured it was just some random scammer trying their luck.

On December 15th
another notice
was filed, this time on behalf of Darren Yaw.

I recognized Yaw’s name as co-founder of the collapsed
GCG Asia
Ponzi scheme.

This prompted me to look closer into the Chen Chiu notice, at which point I discovered BehindMLM had never published anything on Chiu.

Pulling up Chen Chiu’s name on the Lumen Database reveals a bunch of DMCA notices filed on December 11th.

That led me to
this website in Chinese
, detailing Darren Yaw’s prison stint in Cambodia.

At this point I figured Chen Chiu and Darren Yaw are the same person.

The Chinese language website has some photos of Yaw in Cambodian prison I hadn’t seen before.

As reported here on BehindMLM,
Yaw and his wife were arrested in Cambodia
in 2019.

Tracking what happened after that was difficult. As of June 2019, all we knew was that Yaw’s wife had been released  but that he was still in custody.

Today I revisited Yaw’s arrest and found he, as “Yaw Foo Hoe” (??), was convicted of attempted fraud in October 2019.

Yaw was sentenced to one year in prison but received a five month suspended sentence.

This means Yaw was released sometime in Q2, 2020.

Getting back to the DMCA notices, they’re all pretty similar. The one for the Chinese language website cited above reads as follows:

This personal photo belongs to our client that was used by somebody to discredit him.

He was accused with false allegations and images attached on links/forums are his property.

Photos of him and his colleagues are even exploited for fake news online and this is against the law.

To be clear, Yaw/Chiu was very much arrested, convicted and sentenced to prison in Cambodia. I can’t speak to ownership of Yaw’s prison photos, but I’ve republished them here under Fair Use.

The DMCA notice Chen Chiu filed against BehindMLM on December 11th reads near identical to the notice quoted above.

The notice Darren Yaw filed on December 15th is more egregious.

Private photos of my client that he has taken himself has been leaked online without his consent.

My client is a high status individual who has been recognised by the King of Malaysia, and these leaks has affected his reputation negatively.

As these are his private photos, they are not meant to be distributed online and remains his copyright since he is a creator, and no links of the content can be found online.

Excluding the prison photos above, the
only
photo BehindMLM has published of Yaw is this one:

That was taken

🤖 Quick Answer

Who is Darren Yaw and what is his connection to GCG Asia?
Darren Yaw is a co-founder of GCG Asia, a collapsed investment scheme. He has been associated with attempts to suppress information about the company's operations through legal mechanisms, including filing DMCA takedown notices against websites publishing critical content about his involvement.

What are DMCA takedown notices and how are they being used in this case?
DMCA takedown notices are legal requests to remove copyrighted content from websites. In this instance, notices were filed against BehindMLM by individuals connected to GCG Asia, allegedly to suppress coverage of the scheme's history and operations, despite content being protected under fair use provisions.

What is the significance of the timing of these takedown notices?
Multiple DMCA notices were filed in December against BehindMLM within days of each other.

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