On 22 October, Coindesk reported that Spanish National Police have arrested Santiago Fuentes, the operator of cryptocurrency arbitrage firm Arbistar 2.0, in a crackdown on the platform that researchers and investors allege to be a massive bitcoin Ponzi scheme.
https://www.coindesk.com/arbistar-operator-arrested-crypto-ponzi
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