FBI Fugitive Imer Gomez Accused of $10 Million San Antonio Investment Scheme — Case File
Federal agents say more than 400 investors — many of them in San Antonio — handed Gomez roughly $10 million for stock portfolios the FBI says never existed. He is charged with wire fraud, believed to be in Mexico, and the FBI is offering up to $150,000 for information that leads to his arrest and conviction.
CASE FILE — Charged with: wire fraud, in a federal indictment returned July 16, 2025, by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and recently unsealed. Alleged take: approximately $10 million from more than 400 investor victims, many of them in the San Antonio area. Status: at large — the FBI believes he is avoiding prosecution in Mexico. Reward: up to $150,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction. Send a tip: call the FBI's toll-free tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov; people who provide information may remain anonymous. Gomez is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
The FBI's San Antonio office announced on Oct. 13, 2026, that Imer Gomez, 29, had been added to the bureau's Most Wanted Fraudsters list, a roster the FBI created and launched in June 2026 to focus exclusively on fugitives wanted for major fraud, separate from its traditional Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. FBI San Antonio Special Agent in Charge Daniel Faith announced the listing. The case is being investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas.
According to the FBI, the alleged scheme ran from 2021 to 2024 through three companies: K&G Investment Solutions LLC, Helios Venture Capital Group LLC and Helios Venture Fund LLC. Gomez allegedly portrayed himself as a successful investment adviser and options trader, boasted of high returns, and told investors their money would be held in personalized portfolios and invested in the stock market.
The money, the FBI alleges, never reached any portfolio. Instead, investigators say, it funded a lavish lifestyle and went out as payments to earlier investors — the mechanics of a Ponzi scheme — and to family, friends and business associates. To conceal the fraud, Gomez allegedly provided fake account statements showing rapid growth in investors' accounts. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which filed a parallel civil lawsuit on July 14, 2025, describes the account updates as one-line emails listing balances that kept increasing without identifying any securities transactions; regulators say no client accounts were created or supervised, no client money was used to trade securities, and insurance Gomez allegedly promised — coverage of up to 75 percent of an account's value — was never obtained. The SEC complaint says Gomez promised monthly returns in the double digits and told at least one client he wanted to “help the Hispanic community build generational wealth.”
The end, as the SEC tells it, came in a letter to clients dated Sept. 19, 2023, in which Gomez claimed Helios “was impacted by a sudden and unrecoverable liquidation” and promised that a guaranteed bailout loan would return their initial capital by Feb. 1, 2024. Regulators allege the claimed liquidation marked the point when Gomez ran out of new client money, and that although he met with a potential lender, he never secured the loan. The SEC's civil action seeks the return of money it alleges was improperly obtained, plus interest and a civil penalty, and permanent court orders barring further violations. It also names two San Antonio residents as relief defendants — people the SEC says received client funds from Gomez, roughly $666,000, some of it used to buy real estate — and seeks the return of that money; the fraud claims in the suit are against Gomez and Helios.
Where Gomez is now is the open question in the case. The FBI says he is believed to be avoiding prosecution in Mexico, and its wanted record says he may be living near Puerto Vallarta. Gomez is a citizen of both the United States and Mexico; the FBI lists his aliases as Imer Abraham Gomez, Abe Gomez and Imer Tovar. Federal court records in the SEC case, meanwhile, document about a year of unsuccessful attempts to serve him at multiple San Antonio addresses and efforts to locate him in Mexico. In an order dated July 15, 2026, U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez authorized service by email and by delivery or posting at Gomez's mother's residence; an investigator working on service in Mexico had concluded in May 2026 that Gomez was likely in the San Antonio area. His whereabouts, in other words, are unconfirmed on two continents.
Where the case stands: the criminal case cannot move until Gomez is in custody. Whenever and wherever he is arrested, he would be returned to the Western District of Texas to face the wire fraud charge, while the SEC's civil case proceeds in the same district. Until then, the investigation is a public one: the FBI has posted his photograph and aliases on its wanted page, and the reward of up to $150,000 stands for information leading to his arrest and conviction. This tracker will follow any arrest, court appearance or new filing. The charge remains an allegation: Imer Gomez is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
