加州法院责令 IcomTech“庞氏骗局”运营商支付 500 万美元

加利福尼亚州法院已下令参与 IcomTech“庞氏”骗局的 5 名个人因欺诈和挪用资金支付超过 500 万美元

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.

加利福尼亚州法院已命令参与 IcomTech“庞氏”骗局的五名个人支付超过 500 万美元的费用，罪名是通过虚假的比特币交易计划进行欺诈和挪用被盗资金。

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.

缺席判决令认定 David Carmona、Juan Arellano Parra、Moses Valdez 和 David Brend 对诉状中指控的所有违反《商品交易法》和商品期货交易委员会 (CFTC) 法规的行为负责，而 Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa 则获得了同意书CFTC 在 12 月 11 日的一份声明中表示。

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

根据 CFTC 于 2023 年 5 月 24 日提起的诉讼，该缺席判决于 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.

这五人向美国和其他国家的 190 名个人虚假承诺将通过其不存在的挖矿和交易平台将资金投资于比特币和其他加密货币，然后以欺诈手段向他们募集了超过 100 万美元。

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

相反，他们挪用了大量受害者资金，2022 年 12 月估计约为 840 万美元。

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.

卡莫纳、阿雷利亚诺·帕拉、瓦尔迪兹和布伦德将分别支付 100 万美元的民事罚款，并与奥乔亚一起向受害者支付约 100 万美元的赔偿金，总计超过 500 万美元。

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 注册以及在任何 CFTC 监管的市场进行交易。

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.

与此同时，IcomTech 庞氏骗局的创始人和“策划者”卡莫纳 (Carmona) 于 10 月份因串谋电信诈骗罪被判处 10 年监禁。

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

罗德里格斯因参与其中而于 10 月 31 日被判处 8 年徒刑，而布伦德则于 12 月 2 日被判处 10 年徒刑。

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

奥乔亚还于一月份因串谋电信诈骗罪被判处五年监禁。

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 于 2018 年中至 2019 年底运营，承诺投资者每六周获得 100% 的投资回报，其运营商经常前往美国和海外，举办“奢华博览会”，以引诱受害者参与庞氏骗局。

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.

他们经常开着昂贵的汽车、穿着豪华的衣服来参加这些活动，同时吹嘘自己的利润，以说服潜在投资者他们可以达到同样水平的财务成功。