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Other Related Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Other Related Party Transactions

Note 15 – Other Related Party Transactions

 

Related parties are natural persons or other entities that have the ability, directly or indirectly, to control another party or exercise significant influence over the party in making financial and operating decisions. Related parties include other parties that are subject to common control or that are subject to common significant influences.

 

On August 1, 2021, the Company and Danny Rittman, Chief Technology Officer and a Director of the Company, agreed to amend his employment agreement pursuant to which he will receive salary at $5,000 per month.

  

On September 1, 2017, the Company entered into and closed an Asset Purchase Agreement with a third party, RWJ Advanced Marketing, LLC (“RWJ”), a Georgia corporation, pursuant to which the Company purchased certain assets from RWJ, including inventory, terminals, licenses and permits and intangible assets. At closing, the Company and Mr. Greg Bauer entered into an Employment Agreement pursuant to which Mr. Bauer was retained as Chief Executive Officer for a term of one year, subject to an automatic extension, unless terminated, in consideration of a base salary of $250,000 and a bonus of 10% of net profit generated by the assets acquired. Mr. Bauer was also appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company. As of the closing date, Mr. Murray resigned as Chief Executive Officer of the Company but will remain as a director of the Company. Mr. Bauer, since 2004 through present, has served as executive director with W.L. Petrey Wholesale, Inc. where he was in charge of the UGO/Preway operations. The Company is in litigations in connection with RWJ transaction.

 

On January 1, 2019, the Company and Douglas Davis entered into an Amended and Restated Employment Agreement pursuant to which Mr. Davis was retained as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Davis served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from July 2018 to April 11, 2020. The term of Mr. Davis’ employment was for two years through January 1, 2021. Mr. Davis was entitled to an annual base salary of $250,000, which was to be increased to $400,000 upon the Company up-listing to a national exchange. Mr. Davis was also entitled to the issuance of Stock Options to acquire an aggregate of 50,000 shares of common stock of the Company, exercisable for five years, subject to vesting. The options were to be earned and vested (i) with respect to 20,000 shares of common stock on the date hereof, (ii) 5,000 shares of common stock upon the successful dual list of the Company on an international exchange such as SIX Zurich Stock Exchange or Euronext, (iii) 15,000 shares of common stock upon the successful up listing to a national exchange such as the Nasdaq, NYSE Euronext, TSX, AMEX or other, and (iv) with respect to 5,000 shares of common stock at each of the six month anniversaries (July 1, 2019 and January 1, 2020). The exercise price of such options shall be the closing price of the Company on the date prior to such event.

 

On October 10, 2019, the Company entered into a Joint Venture Agreement (the “BitSpeed Agreement”) with BitSpeed LLC, which is owned by Douglas Davis, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, to form GBT BitSpeed Corp., a Nevada company (“GBT BitSpeed”). The purpose of GBT BitSpeed is to develop, maintain and support its proprietary Extreme Transfer Software Application Concurrency, a software application to transfer secure, accelerated transmission of large file data over networks, and connection to cloud storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networks (SANs) (“Concurrency”). BitSpeed shall contribute the services and resources for the development of Concurrency to GBT BitSpeed. The Company shall contribute 10,000,000 shares of common stock (valued at $17,900,000) of the Company to GBT BitSpeed. BitSpeed and the Company will each own 50% of GBT BitSpeed. The Company shall appoint two directors and BitSpeed shall appoint one director of GBT BitSpeed. In addition, GBT BitSpeed and Mr. Davis entered into a Consulting Agreement in which Mr. Davis is engaged to provide services for $10,000 per month payable quarterly which may be paid in shares of common stock calculated by the amount owed divided by the Company’s 20-day VWAP. Mr. Davis will provide services in connection with the development of the business as well as GBT BitSpeed’s capital raising efforts. The term of the Consulting Agreement is two years. The closing of the BitSpeed Agreement occurred on October 14, 2019. On April 11, 2020, Douglas Davis resigned as Chief Executive Officer of the Company so that he may fully devote all of his efforts to GBT Tokenize Corp., the Company’s joint venture, which intends to develop a new product. Mr. Davis’ resignation was not the result of any disagreements with management or board of directors of the Company. On June 16, 2022 the parties amended the Bitspeed Agreement to further define the constitution of the Board of Directors. As such, Section 4.2 of the Bitspeed Agreement was amended and restated to provide that the Board of GBT Bitspeed Corp. shall consist of two Directors, one of whom shall be appointed by Bitspeed LLC and the other shall be appointed by the Company.

 

On March 6, 2020, the Company through Greenwich, entered into the Tokenize Agreement with Tokenize, which is owned by a Costa Rica Trust represented by Gonzalez. Gonzalez also represents Gonzalez Costa Rica Trust, which holds a note of $10,000,000 and is also a shareholder of the Company. Under the Tokenize Agreement, the parties formed GBT Tokenize. The purpose of GBT Tokenize is to develop Technology Portfolio, throughout the State of California. Upon generating any revenue from the Technology Portfolio, the Joint Venture will earn the first right of refusal for other territories. Tokenize shall contribute the services and resources for the development of the Technology Portfolio to GBT Tokenize. The Company contributed 100,000,000 GBT Shares to GBT Tokenize. Tokenize and the Company will each own 50% of GBT Tokenize. The Company pledged its 50% ownership in GBT Tokenize and its 100% ownership of Greenwich to Tokenize to secure its Technology Portfolio investment. The Company shall appoint two directors and Tokenize shall appoint one director of GBT Tokenize. In addition, GBT Tokenize and Gonzalez entered into a Consulting Agreement in which Gonzalez is engaged to provide services in consideration of $33,333 per month payable quarterly which may be paid in shares of common stock calculated by the amount owed divided by the Company’s 10-day VWAP. Gonzalez will provide services in connection with the development of the business as well as GBT Tokenize’s capital raising efforts. The term of the Consulting Agreement is two years. The closing of the Tokenize Agreement occurred on March 9, 2020. Via this Joint Venture the parties commenced development of a development of an intelligent human vital signs’ device, suggested named qTerm.

 

The platform is an expansion of the existing license agreement with GBT Tokenize Corp., which provided GBT Tokenize Corp. with an exclusive territory of California to develop certain of the Company’s technology. As the nature of the platform cannot be restricted only to California, the Company’s joint venture GBT Tokenize Corp. will be compensated with additional two hundred million shares of the Company to strengthen its funding, subject to board approval. A provisional patent application for the qTerm Medical Device was filed on March 30, 2020 with the USPTO. The application has been assigned serial number 63001564. The Joint Venture completed successfully the first prototype. There is no guarantee that the Company will be successful in researching, developing or implementing this product into the market. In order to successfully implement this concept, the Company will need to raise adequate capital to support its research and, if successfully researched, developed and granted regulatory approval, the Company would need to enter into a strategic relationship with a third party that has experience in manufacturing, selling and distributing this product. There is no guarantee that the Company will be successful in any or all of these critical steps.

 

Magic Agreement

 

As explained above, on April 11, 2022 the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Greenwich International Holdings, a Costa Rica corporation (“Greenwich”), entered into a Master Joint Venture and Territorial License Agreement (the “Tokenize Agreement”) with Magic International Argentina FC, S.L. (“Magic”) and Tokenize which replaced a prior joint venture entered between the parties.

 

The purpose of Tokenize is to develop, maintain and support source codes for its proprietary technologies including advanced mobile chip technologies, tracking, radio technologies, AI core engine, electronic design automation, mesh, games, data storage, networking, IT services, business process outsourcing development services, customer service, technical support and quality assurance for business, customizable and dedicated inbound and outbound calls solutions, as well as digital communications processing for enterprises and startups (“Technology Portfolio”), throughout the world, which Technology Portfolio was previously licensed to the Company for the State of California.

 

The Tokenize Agreement provides that the Company shall contribute 150,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company (“GBT Shares”) to Tokenize. Sergio Fridman is the manager of Magic and the beneficial owner of all outstanding securities of Magic. Magic will contribute cash of $250,000 into Tokenize for promissory note and agreed to further fund Tokenize with all funds reasonably needed for implementation of the business purposes as described in the Tokenize Agreement. The GBT Shares will not be transferable for a period of five years. As of June 30, 2022, the Company received the $250,000 fund from Magic but the promissory note agreement has not been finalized yet. Therefore, the Company recorded the $250,000 funds as an account payable.

 

Magic and the Company    each own 50% of the outstanding shares of common stock of Tokenize. The Company pledged its 50% ownership in Tokenize and its 100% ownership of Greenwich (the “Pledged Securities”) to Magic for providing that Magic may take possession of such Pledged Securities in the event the Company executes, delivers and performs any future agreement or document or judgement resulting in the creation of any lien, pledge, mortgage, claim, charge or encumbrance upon any assets of the Company. The Company shall appoint two directors and Magic shall appoint one director of Tokenize.

 

On June 16, 2022 the parties amended the Tokenize Agreement to further define the constitution of the Board of Directors. As such, Section 4.2 of the Tokenize Agreement was amended and restated to provide that the Board of GBT Tokenize Corp. shall consist of two Directors, one of whom shall be appointed by GBT Tokenize Corp. and the other shall be appointed by the Company.

 

Yello Partners Inc.

 

As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 (audited), the Company owed $445,000 and $385,000 to Yello Partners, Inc., a Company owned by the Mansour Khatib, the Company’s CEO.

 

Stanley Hills LLC Accounts Payable – Related Party

 

On March 8, 2020, SURG filed a lawsuit against its transfer agent, Vstock from transferring millions of SURG stock is currently in possession by the Company and assigned to Stanley Hills, LLC. On January 1, 2021, SURG, AltCorp and Stanley Hills, LLC (“Stanley”) entered into a Mutual Release and Settlement Agreement (“Settlement Agreement”). Pursuant to the terms of the Settlement Agreement, SURG agreed to amend the AltCorp Exchange Agreement where SURG acknowledged a debt of $3,300,000 (the “Debt”) to be paid in 33 monthly payments of $100,000 payable in shares of common stock of SURG at a per share price equal the volume weighted average price of Surg’s common stock during the ten trading days immediately preceding the issuance. SURG paid $400,000 in cash and $800,000 by shares. The SURG common stock issued to Altcorp have been pledged since August 12, 2020 for the benefit of Stanley to secure Stanley’s note payable by the Company. Accordingly, the SURG Common Stock issued to AltCorp as a result of the Settlement Agreement were pledged to Stanley. As of December 31, 2021 there were no surge shares pledges after the final settlement signed on December 22, 2021 and that replaced all prior settlement agreement. The final settlement SURG agreed to make total payments of $4,200,000 to the Company on or prior to January 7, 2022. This $4.2 million amount consists of $450,000 paid by SURG in November and December 2021, $100,000 to be paid on or about January 4, 2022, and $3,650,000 to be paid on or prior to January 7, 2022 of which $375,000 will be held in escrow as described before. The $3,750,000 was recorded as other receivable as of December 31, 2021. As of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the Company has recorded an outstanding payable to Stanley of $317,174 and $1,862,928, respectively, recorded under accrued expenses.

 

Sales to related party for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 were $0 and $45,000 respectively. Sales are derived from providing IT consulting services to Stanley Hills, a related party. The Company ceased providing IT services to Stanley during the quarter ended June 30, 2022.

 

Sales to related party for the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 were $45,000 and $90,000 respectively. Sales are derived from providing IT consulting services to Stanley Hills, a related party. The Company ceased providing IT services to Stanley during the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.

 

Advanced from Related Party

 

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, Mansour Khatib, the Company’s CEO advanced $154,117 and $575,516 cash to the Company for business use purpose to fund the Amazon operations, respectively.

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company repaid $558,379 cash back to Mansour Khatib.

 

As of June, 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021 (audited), the Company has recorded an outstanding payable balance to Mansour Khatib of $17,137 and $0, respectively.

 

Metaverse Agreement

 

On June 10, 2022, the Company, entered into a Joint Venture and Territorial License Agreement (the “Metaverse Agreement”) with Ildar Gainulin and Maria Belova (“IGMB”). Under the Metaverse Agreement, the parties formed Metaverse Kit Corp., a Nevada corporation (“Metaverse Kit”). The purpose of Metaverse Kit is to develop, maintain and support source codes for its proprietary technologies and comprehensive platform that combines a core virtual reality platform and an extended set of real-world functions to provide a metaverse experience initially within the area of sports and then expanding into virtual worlds of entertainment, live events, gaming, communications and other cross over product opportunities (the “Meta Portfolio”). Under the Metaverse Agreement, IGMB agreed to provide Metaverse Kit with the licensed technology and expertise, as requested and mutually agreed to by Company and IGMB. In connection therewith, the parties entered an Asset Purchase Agreement concurrently with the Metaverse Agreement whereby IGMB sold Metaverse Kit all source codes pertaining to the Meta Portfolio. Further, IGMB provided an exclusive license to Metaverse Kit throughout the world for the invented product/service and the related platforms relating to the Meta Portfolio and to use the know how to develop, manufacture, sell, market and distribute the Meta Portfolio throughout the world The Company shall contribute 500,000,000   shares of common stock of the Company (“GBT Shares”) to Metaverse Kit. IGBM and the Company will each own 50% of Metaverse Kit. The Company pledged its 50% ownership in Metaverse Kit to Igor 1 Corp. to secure a convertible note held by Igor 1 Corp. The Company shall appoint two directors and IGBM shall appoint one director of Metaverse Kit.

 

In addition, Metaverse Kit, IGMB and Elentina Group, LLC (“Elentina”) entered into a Consulting Agreements in which IGBM and Elentina, each were engaged to provide services for $25,000 per month payable quarterly which may be paid in shares of common stock calculated by the amount owed divided by the Company’s 10-day VWAP. IGBM and Elentina will provide services in connection with the development of the business as well as Metaverse Kit’s capital raising efforts. The term of the Consulting Agreement is two years.

 

The closing of the Metaverse Agreement occurred on June 13, 2022 and the Company recorded the share issuance at FV of $5,000 on the agreement date.

 

On June 16, 2022 the parties amended the Meta Agreement to further define the constitution of Meta Board of Directors. As such, Section 4.2 of the Meta Agreement was amended and restated to provide that the Board of Metaverse Kit Corp. shall consist of two Directors, one of whom shall be appointed by Ildar Gainulin and Maria Belova and the other shall be appointed by the Company.