The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Senior Judge David C. Guaderrama of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas issued a ruling on July 9 against Abner Alejandro Tinoco and his company, Kikit & Mess Investments, LLC, requiring them to pay financial compensation totaling more than $31 million. The ruling requires Tinoco and Kikit & Mess (formerly based in El Paso, Texas) to jointly and severally pay $6,203,792.18 in restitution to 199 victims; pay $6,257,904.89 in restitution of stolen money and an equivalent deduction for any restitution paid to the victims; and a civil monetary penalty of $18,773,714, which is three times the amount illegally obtained by their forex fraud and cryptocurrency scheme.