Jawahar was sentenced to 11 years for a Swiftarc wire-fraud Ponzi. Restitution is judgment, not a new count.

An 11-year sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on those counts, and restitution is an order to pay, not a new charge. U.S. District Judge Zachary M. Bluestone, in the Eastern District of Missouri, sentenced Siddharth Jawahar, 38, founder of Texas-based Swiftarc Capital LLC, to 11 years after a January guilty plea to three counts of wire fraud and ordered $31.35 million in restitution to 64 victims. The plea is the admission behind that judgment.

From July 2016 through December 2023, the record describes more than $35 million taken in from investors and only about $10 million invested. New-investor money paid older investors and funded private jets, luxury apartments in New York and Austin, clubs, and restaurants. The early scheme focused on a Philip Morris Pakistan concentration, also called PMP, with false profit claims after that position declined. Those facts sit behind the three wire-fraud counts he already admitted. They are not new counts added when the court picked a number. The sentence was reported around Sept. 15–17, 2026.

Reporting said prosecutors told the court that Travis Kelce was among the victims. The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to elaborate. The Department of Homeland Security, in a Sept. 21 note, said Jawahar had been living in the United States without legal status after an overstay, and that deportation follows the sentence. Immigration status is a separate file from the wire-fraud judgment. Post-indictment allegations in the record, that he tried to coach a victim ahead of an FBI statement, lied about his immigration status, and tried to have a relative wipe an iPhone, are prosecution claims. They are not additional convictions.