SEC v. Ricardi Celicourt and Brisly Guillaume (ponzi schemes, 2024)

Settled

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In July 2024 the SEC sued Ricardi Celicourt and Brisly Guillaume in the Southern District of Florida over an alleged Ponzi-type scheme. After a stay for settlement talks, the SEC moved in December 2025 for final judgments to which both defendants consented, and the court entered them on January 14, 2026; the docket text we could open does not show the amounts.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

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Disgorgement

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Prejudgment interest

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Total relief

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Alleged gain

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What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on July 19, 2024 as release LR-26050. The complaint charges two sales agents with registration violations for selling Royal Bengal Logistics notes, raising at least $109 million and receiving $1.3 million in bonuses. The Ponzi scheme described is Royal Bengal's, charged separately in 2023; these two are not charged with fraud.

This library tags the matter as a Ponzi scheme because the document describes returns to earlier investors paid from later investors' money, as alleged or found. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

Outcome. The docket (S.D. Fla. 0:24-cv-61275) shows a stay of the case in April 2025 so the parties could settle, then a December 12, 2025 SEC motion for final judgments marked as consented to by Celicourt and Guillaume, an order granting that motion on January 14, 2026, and separate final judgments against each of them signed that day (Documents 41 and 42). The text of the judgments was not available to us, so we cannot state the injunctions, disgorgement, interest or penalties; none is stored. This is a consent resolution, not a trial finding.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with one technique in our taxonomy. The tagging is ours: regulators charge statutory provisions, not technique names, so the mapping is an editorial judgement described in our editorial policy.

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Timeline

1. 2024-07-19 Litigation release published
2. 2026-01-14 Final judgments entered against Ricardi Celicourt and Brisly Guillaume on consent

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release
• Docket, SEC v. Celicourt (S.D. Fla. 0:24-cv-61275), via CourtListener

The linked release is a work of the United States government and is not subject to copyright. Our summary and narrative above are our own writing.

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Record added September 10, 2026. submit a correction.