The CEO of an Orlando-based company has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a multi-million-dollar “Ponzi scheme.”

On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced that 34-year-old Apopka resident Christopher Alexander Delgado was taken into custody on a criminal complaint charging him with wire fraud and money laundering.

According to the complaint, Delgado served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Orlando-based Goliath Ventures, which was formerly known as Gen-Z Venture Firm.

Over a three-year period, from January 2023 through January 2026, Delgado allegedly operated Goliath as a “Ponzi scheme,” which is a form of investment fraud that involves paying existing investors with funds contributed by new investors.

Delgado’s alleged scheme “involved soliciting victims to invest substantial sums of money under false and fraudulent promises of monthly returns generated through cryptocurrency ‘liquidity pools.’”

The complaint alleges that the victims gave money to Goliath through personal referrals, professional marketing materials, luxury events, charitable sponsorships, and monthly payments of purported returns in order to establish Goliath’s bona fides with investors.

In total, Goliath allegedly obtained at least $328 million from the victim investors.

Instead of placing the victim investors’ funds in cryptocurrency liquidity pools, the complaint states that the funds were instead used for the following purposes: to pay purported returns to earlier investors, to return principal to investors who requested it, and to cover the cost of “extravagant business gatherings, holiday parties, and luxury travel accommodations.”

Using the funds from the victim investors, Delgado allegedly purchased four residential properties that were each worth between $1.15 million and $8.5 million.

A criminal complaint is merely an allegation that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law. Every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.

In the event that Delgado is convicted on all counts, he would face a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.

Following Delgado’s arrest on Tuesday, he appeared before a federal judge, and he was later released from custody after posting a $1 million bond.

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