Mastermind of Alleged Billion Dollar Spanish Pyramid Scheme Arrested, Faces 1...
The CEO of Arbistar the Spanish investment company, Santiago Fuentes, has been arrested and arraigned on charges of fraud, belonging to a criminal organization and money laundering. Fuentes, who has been in hiding since September, was arrested at one of his properties in the south of Tenerife. The Arbistar Pyramid Scheme Fuentes’ arrest stems from lawsuits filed by Arbistar clients who allege pyramid fraud after the bitcoin trading company abruptly froze accounts leaving 32,000 families affected. During a hearing, the Investigating Court Number 3 of Arona (Tenerife) described....
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The Spanish Prosecution office says it is investigating Arbistar for allegedly running a bitcoin trading scam with preliminary findings suggesting $1 billion in investors’ funds cannot be accounted for. The disappearance of investor funds has affected 32,000 families that are failing to access their savings that are invested with Arbistar, a suspected pyramid scheme masquerading as a bitcoin trading platform. Problems for Arbistar investors started after the bitcoin trading platform abruptly froze investor accounts before ceasing operations in September. At the time, executives at....
A Spanish court has remanded in custody the alleged operators of a pyramid scheme that used a fake digital currency called 'unete'. Temporary imprisonment pre-trial is typically set as a precaution to avoid defendants from fleeing or destroying necessary evidence during a case. The court documents, dated 21st October, state that Jose Manuel Ramirez Marco and Maria del Pilar Otero Sanchez are both suspected of fraud, participating in a criminal organisation and money laundering. Spanish police first arrested 20 individuals in connection to the pyramid scheme in July, estimating that 50,000....
Spanish police have arrested 20 individuals in connection with a pyramid scheme that used a fake digital currency called the unete to attract unwitting investors. The Spanish National Police Corp announced the arrests on 16th July, which took place in Madrid and other parts of the country. Police estimate that the scheme resulted in as much as €50m in losses, ensnaring roughly 50,000 victims worldwide - with 6,000 in Spain alone. Spanish police seized over €5m and approximately $22m from related bank accounts. Two luxury cars and 18 computers were also taken into custody. According to....
People’s Daily, the most popular newspaper in circulation in China, has recently published a story about a virtual currency pyramid scheme, named EGD. The pyramid scheme involved over 500.000 members, and 1.09 billion Chinese yuan ($1.5 billion). EGD even had a clone named Wanfubi, with over 120.000 registered members, and 1.2 billion yuan ($173 million) involved. At the end of the operation, 77 suspects were arrested, and $121 million were frozen. The pyramid scheme was first discovered by the Xuzhou Department of Public Security (DPS) back in March, 2016. The scheme was launched back in....