加州法院命令五人因比特幣交易詐欺行為支付 500 萬美元

根據 Cointelegraph 報道，加州一家法院已命令參與 IcomTech 龐氏騙局的 5 名個人因詐欺行為支付超過 500 萬美元的費用

Five individuals involved in the IcomTech Ponzi scheme have been ordered by a Californian court to pay more than $5 million for fraud and misappropriation of funds through a fraudulent Bitcoin trading operation, according to Cointelegraph.

根據 Cointelegraph 報道，加州法院已命令參與 IcomTech 龐氏騙局的五名個人支付超過 500 萬美元的費用，罪名是透過欺詐性比特幣交易操作進行詐欺和挪用資金。

The court’s default judgment found David Carmona, Juan Arellano Parra, Moses Valdez, and David Brend liable for all violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations outlined in the complaint. Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa received a consent order, the CFTC stated in a Dec. 11 announcement.

法院的缺席判決認定 David Carmona、Juan Arellano Parra、Moses Valdez 和 David Brend 對訴狀中概述的所有違反《商品交易法》和商品期貨交易委員會 (CFTC) 法規的行為承擔責任。 CFTC 在 12 月 11 日的公告中表示，Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa 已收到同意令。

The judgment, issued on Oct. 21, follows a lawsuit filed by the CFTC on May 24, 2023. The five individuals allegedly solicited over $1 million from 190 people in the U.S. and other countries, falsely promising to invest their funds in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies through a non-existent mining and trading platform. However, they misappropriated a significant portion of the victim’s funds, which amounted to about $8.4 million as of December 2022.

該判決於10 月21 日發布，此前CFTC 於2023 年5 月24 日提起訴訟。幣和其他加密貨幣。然而，他們挪用了受害者資金的很大一部分，截至 2022 年 12 月，金額約為 840 萬美元。

Carmona, Arellano Parra, Valdez, and Brend are each ordered to pay a $1 million civil monetary penalty. Together with Ochoa, they must also pay about $1 million in restitution to the victims, totaling over $5 million. Furthermore, all five individuals are permanently banned from registering with the CFTC and from trading in any CFTC-regulated markets.

卡莫納、阿雷利亞諾·帕拉、瓦爾迪茲和布倫德分別被命令支付 100 萬美元的民事罰款。他們還必須與奧喬亞一起向受害者支付約 100 萬美元的賠償，總計超過 500 萬美元。此外，所有五人都被永久禁止在 CFTC 註冊以及在任何 CFTC 監管的市場進行交易。

David Carmona, the founder and mastermind behind IcomTech’s Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October. Rodriguez received an eight-year sentence on Oct. 31 for his involvement, while Brend was sentenced to 10 years on Dec. 2. Ochoa was sentenced to five years in January for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

IcomTech 龐氏騙局的創始人和策劃者 David Carmona 於 10 月因串謀電信詐騙罪被判處 10 年監禁。羅德里格斯因參與其中而於10 月31 日被判處8 年徒刑，布倫德於12 月2 日被判處10 年徒刑。徒刑。

Operating between mid-2018 and the end of 2019, IcomTech promised investors a 100% return on their investment every six weeks. The operators traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and overseas, hosting grand expos to lure victims into the Ponzi scheme. They would often arrive at these events in luxury cars, wearing expensive clothing, and flaunting their profits to convince potential investors that they could achieve similar financial success.

IcomTech 於 2018 年中期至 2019 年底經營，承諾投資者每六週獲得 100% 的投資回報。這些經營者遍布美國和海外，舉辦盛大的博覽會來引誘受害者加入龐氏騙局。他們經常開著豪華轎車，穿著昂貴的衣服，炫耀自己的利潤，以說服潛在投資者他們可以取得類似的財務成功。