Frank Schneider (spy)
Luxembourgish spy
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Frank Schneider (born 1970 or 1971) is a fugitive and former spy within the Luxembourgish State Intelligence service.[1]
Biography
Schneider worked at the United States Embassy in Luxembourg before gaining employment at the Service de Renseignement de l'État (SREL).[2]
Until his dismissal in 2008 due to a domestic wiretapping scandal,[1] Schneider was the operational director of the SREL, the intelligence agency of Luxembourg.[3] After his dismissal from SREL in 2008, he headed a private intelligence company.[2]
Sandstone & OneCoin
Schneider founded the private investigation firm Sandstone S.A. in 2015. Sandstone was hired by the Ruja Ignatova associated OneCoin.[1][4]
In April 2021, he was arrested by the French police in relation to a fraud case concerning OneCoin in the US.[5] His extradiction was postponed until September of that year.[6] He faces five years in prison in Luxembourg[7] and 40 years in prison in the US.[8]
In 2023, he escaped house arrest and went on the run.[8][9][10] In 2024, New Zealand Police seized a property in Wellington and NZ$462,000, both associated with Schneider and believed to be proceeds of a pyramid scheme.[10]
Sandstone has denied press reports that they were preparing a report stating that Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated by Russians.[11]
