Question: Vijay Eswaran, is a Malaysian businessman, currently serving as the Executive Chairman of QI Group,which Hong Kong-based multi-level marketing (MLM) company, formerly known as QuestNet?

Context articles: ACN Inc.
Solavei
Binary plan
Qnet
Vijay Eswaran
Multi-level marketing
LuLaRoe
USANA Health Sciences
In re Amway Corp.
Amway North America

ACN, LLC (formerly ACN, Inc.) is a North-American based multi-level marketing (MLM) company which provides telecommunications, energy, merchant services and other services, depending on the country, through a network of independent sales agents known as "Independent Business Owners" (IBOs), who themselves can recruit new sales agents.
 IBOs earn residual income and bonuses through the acquisition of personal customers, as well as customers by other IBOs they recruit.
 Based in Concord, North Carolina, United States, ACN began operations in the United States in 1993 as an American Communications Network.
 It extended operations to Europe in 1999, to the Pacific in 2004, to Asia in 2011, and now operates in 25 countries, on four continents.
Solavei was a social commerce network offering contract-free mobile service in the United States.
 The company is known for its use of incentivized referral plans and social network advertising program.
 In addition to its mobile phone services, Solavei operates a social commerce network for its users.
 Ryan Wuerch founded the company in 2012.
 As of 2013, Solavei had 140 employees and was valued by investors at $120 million.
 The company has been described as a multi-level marketing (MLM) company, or of being very similar to a MLM company.
A binary plan is an organizational structure used in multi-level marketing (MLM) organizations.
 In this structure, new members are introduced into a Binary Tree where each “node” or new member of the organization has a left and right sub-tree.
 Considered one of the simplest of the popular marketing compensation plans, binary plans began to be introduced by MLM companies in the late 1980s and became one of the four most commonly used organizational structures by the early 2000s.
QNet Ltd, formerly known as QuestNet, GoldQuest, and QI Limited, is a Hong Kong-based multi-level marketing (MLM) company owned by the QI Group.
 The company sells a variety of products including energy, weight management, nutrition, personal care, home care, and fashion accessories etc. on an e-commerce platform.
 QNet was founded in Hong Kong by Vijay Eswaran in 1998 along with QN Europe and other companies.
 Since it was first introduced in 1998, Qnet (doing business at the time as Questnet) promoted gold and silver coins with an MLM system.
 But the coin collection business was touted as a money game and declared illegal in some countries.
 A few years later Questnet came up with a new name, Qnet and offered various other products via the MLM system.
 It promotes its products on its website using claims "that would not pass official muster in much of the world."
 Despite claiming to be an e-commerce based business, an ordinary retail customer can make a purchase of a product from the website only if they have a referrer ID of an independent representative of QNet.
 Unlike other e-commerce websites; purchases without this ID are not allowed.
 Qnet used websites/servers viz., www.qnetindia.in, www.qnetindia.net, www.qnet.net, www.questnet.net, to conduct its business which were blocked by Indian Computer emergency response team (CERT) following a court order.
 Other websites like portal.qnetindia.net, are being investigated by the government and further action on the websites have been promised after details are gathered.
Vijay Eswaran (born 7 October 1960) is a Malaysian businessman, currently serving as the Executive Chairman of the QI Group, headquartered in Hong Kong.
 He is also an author.
Multi-level marketing (MLM) also called pyramid selling, network marketing, and referral marketing, is a controversial marketing strategy for the sale of products and/or services where the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce (also called "participants", and variously known as "salespeople", "distributors", "consultants", "promoters", "independent business owners", etc.) selling the company's products/services, while the earnings of the participants is derived from a pyramid-shaped commission system.
LuLaRoe is a United States-based designer and seller of women's clothing that uses a multi-level marketing model to distribute products.
 LuLaRoe was founded in 2012 by Deanne Brady and her husband Mark Stidham, and is based in Corona, California.
 As a multi-level marketing company, LuLaRoe recruits independent distributors (referred to by the firm as "fashion consultants") to sell products directly, often through social media.
 LuLaRoe reported sales of approximately US$1 billion in 2016, which would have made it one of the largest firms in the multilevel marketing industry at the time, and by 2017 there were approximately 80,000 independent distributors selling the company's clothing.
Usana Health Sciences, Inc., or USANA, is a Utah-based multi-level marketing company that produces various nutritional products and dietary supplements. Usana products, most of which are manufactured at the company’s West Valley City facility, are sold in 20 countries via a network of independent distributors (referred to as "associates").
 Usana is the 24th largest multi-level marketing company in the world.
 The company has sponsored and provided products to several athletic organizations.
 In 2007, several of Usana's executives were discovered to have made false statements in their resumes.
In re Amway Corp. (93 F.T.C. 618; full name In the Matter of Amway Corporation, Inc., et al.) is a 1979 ruling by the United States Federal Trade Commission concerning the business practices of Amway, a multi-level marketing (MLM) company.
 The FTC ruled that Amway was not an illegal pyramid scheme according strictly to the statutory definition of a pyramid scheme, but ordered Amway to cease price fixing and cease misrepresenting to its distributors (participants) the average participant's likelihood of success in the multi-level marketing model.
Amway North America (formerly known as Quixtar North America) is an American worldwide multi-level marketing (MLM) company, founded 1959 in Ada, Michigan, United States.
 It is privately owned by the families of Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel through Alticor which is the holding company for businesses including Amway, Amway Global, Fulton Innovation, Amway Hotel Corporation, Hatteras Yachts, and manufacturing and logistics company Access Business Group.
 After the launch of Amway Global (originally operating under the name Quixtar) it replaced the Amway business in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, with the Amway business continuing to operate in other countries around the world.
 On May 1, 2009, Quixtar made the name change to Amway Global and fused the various different entities of the parent company.