Officers with the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee (CFTC) allege Sam Ikkurty (also referred to as Sreenivas I Rao), of Portland, Ore., and Ravishankar Avadhanam of Aurora, In poor health., in addition to a number of company entities managed by the defendants, labored collectively to persuade their victims to spend money on a “so-called revenue fund invested in digital belongings.”