加州法院命令 IcomTech「龐氏騙局」業者支付 500 萬美元

加州法院已下令參與 IcomTech「龐氏」騙局的 5 名個人因欺詐和挪用資金支付超過 500 萬美元

A Californian court has ordered five individuals involved in IcomTech’s “Ponzi” scheme to pay over $5 million for fraud and misappropriating stolen funds through a fake Bitcoin trading scheme.

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，罪名是透過虛假的比特幣交易計劃進行詐欺和挪用被盜資金。

The default judgment order 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 alleged in the complaint, while Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa was issued a consent order, the CFTC said in a Dec. 11 statement.

缺席判決令認定David Carmona、Juan Arellano Parra、Moses Valdez 和David Brend 對訴狀中指控的所有違反《商品交易法》和商品期貨交易委員會(CFTC) 法規的行為負責，而Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa 則獲得了同意書CFTC 在 12 月 11 日的聲明中表示。

The default judgment was made on Oct. 21 from the CFTC’s lawsuit filed on May 24, 2023.

根據 CFTC 於 2023 年 5 月 24 日提起的訴訟，該缺席判決於 10 月 21 日作出。

The five fraudulently solicited over $1 million from 190 individuals in the United States and other countries after falsely promising them they would invest their funds into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies through their non-existent mining and trading platform.

這五人向美國和其他國家的 190 名個人虛假承諾將透過其不存在的挖礦和交易平台將資金投資於比特幣和其他加密貨幣，然後以欺詐手段向他們募集了超過 100 萬美元。

Instead, they misappropriated a large portion of victim funds, estimated at around $8.4 million in December 2022.

相反，他們挪用了大量受害者資金，2022 年 12 月估計約 840 萬美元。

Carmona, Arellano Parra, Valdez, and Brend will each pay a $1 million civil monetary penalty and also, along with Ochoa, pay an approximate $1 million in restitution to the victims — totaling over $5 million.

卡莫納、阿雷利亞諾·帕拉、瓦爾迪茲和布倫德將分別支付100 萬美元的民事罰款，並與奧喬亞一起向受害者支付約100 萬美元的賠償金，總計超過500萬美元。

All five individuals have been permanently banned from registering with the CFTC and from trading in any CFTC-regulated markets.

所有五人均被永久禁止在 CFTC 註冊以及在任何 CFTC 監管的市場進行交易。

It comes as Carmona, the founder and “mastermind” behind IcomTech’s Ponzi, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October.

與此同時，IcomTech 龐氏騙局的創始人和「策劃者」卡莫納 (Carmona) 於 10 月因串謀電信詐欺罪被判處 10 年監禁。

Rodriguez was sentenced to eight years on Oct. 31 for his involvement, while Brend received a 10-year sentence on Dec. 2.

羅德里格斯因參與其中而於 10 月 31 日被判處 8 年徒刑，而布倫德於 12 月 2 日被判處 10 年徒刑。

Ochoa was also sentenced to five years of prison time in January for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

奧喬亞還在一月因串謀電信詐欺罪被判處五年徒刑。

Operating between mid-2018 and the end of 2019, IcomTech promised investors a 100% return on their investment every six weeks, and its operators would often travel through the US and overseas, hosting “lavish expos” to lure victims into the Ponzi scheme.

IcomTech 於 2018 年中至 2019 年底運營，承諾投資者每六週獲得 100% 的投資回報，其運營商經常前往美國和海外，舉辦“奢華博覽會”，以引誘受害者參與龐氏騙局。

They often arrived at these events in expensive cars, wearing luxurious clothing while boasting about their profits to convince potential investors they could reach the same level of financial success.

他們經常開著昂貴的汽車、穿著豪華的衣服來參加這些活動，同時吹噓自己的利潤，以說服潛在投資者他們可以達到同樣水平的財務成功。