The Court of Cassation on Tuesday validated the extradition to the United States of Frank S., former number 3 of the Luxembourg intelligence services, suspected of being involved in a vast fraud in the cryptocurrency "
OneCoin
".
In a seven-page judgment consulted by AFP, the Court of Cassation rejects Franck S.'s appeal and validates the extradition decision taken in January by the investigating chamber of the Nancy Court of Appeal.
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It is now up to the French government to issue an extradition decree, which is also subject to appeal.
Converted into economic intelligence, Franck S., a 51-year-old Luxembourger residing in Lorraine since 2008, is the subject of an extradition request from American justice addressed to the French authorities on February 4, 2021.
He was arrested in France on April 29, 2021 by the research and intervention brigade (BRI), then brought before the Nancy general prosecutor's office before being imprisoned.
Two American FBI agents then traveled to Nancy to thank the French investigators for his arrest.
Frank S. was however released on November 19, 2021 under house arrest under an electronic bracelet, pending the decision on the extradition request made by the American authorities.
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The former Luxembourg services agent is wanted by the American courts in a case of fraudulent cryptocurrency "
OneCoin
" which defrauded its users of several billion dollars between 2014 and 2019.
Considered in December 2019 by the British newspaper The Times as “
one of the biggest scams in history
”, the system was based on a Ponzi pyramid which consists of remunerating investors with funds brought in by new entrants.
The citizen of the Grand Duchy is indicted in the United States for "
conspiracy to commit electronic fraud
" and "
conspiracy to commit money laundering
", according to the terms of the judgment of the Court of Cassation.
According to Me Emmanuel Marsigny, his lawyer, Frank S. "
discovered
" during his arrest that he had been charged on September 24, 2020 "
by the New York prosecutor's office
" in this case, and is "
falsely presented by the U.S. Attorney as fugitive
.
In May, Frank S. filed a complaint for forgery and use of forgery in public writing, accusing American judicial authorities of false allegations to obtain his imprisonment in France.