Attorney General’s Office of the State of Chihuahua offered a reward of up to 5 million pesosAccording to the complaint, none of the funds were used for investment purposes. Instead, Gutiérrez, 37, was operating a Ponzi scheme and used investor dollars to pay for a $2.5 million mansion in Prosper, a $50,000 Harry Winston engagement ring and order over $34,000 in merchandise from Amazon, Hermes, and Luis Vuitton, on top of bankrolling his personal expenses.
American investors were located in Texas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico and Tennessee. A rewards photo offering a 5 million peso reward for information leading to the arrest of Armando Guti rrez Rosas. The Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission ordered a suspension of the company’s financial activities in November 2021, declaring that Aras was not a part of the Mexican financial system and the company was unauthorized by the commission to raise money from the public.
The Mexican state prosecutor’s office charged Gutiérrez with fraud and totaled that 4,600 people were victimized in Chihuahua, the northern state bordering Texas.Along with Gutiérrez, the SEC also charged Efren Quiroz and Luis Quiroz for acting as unregistered brokers and Maria Tolentino and Diayanira Rendon with violating the registration provisions and aiding and abetting Gutierrez’s and Aras’s violations of the antifraud provisions.