A California court has ordered five individuals involved in IcomTech's "Ponzi scheme" to pay more than $5 million for fraud and embezzlement of stolen funds through a fake bitcoin trading scheme. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said in a statement on Dec. 11 that the default order found David Carmona, Juan Arellano Parra, Moses Valdez, and David Brend liable for all violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as alleged in the complaint, while Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa obtained a consent order.