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Wednesday 2 December 2015

Australian Found Dead in Thailand

Update - Australian Found Dead in Thailand....Sattahip.

The kidnapped 38-year-old Australian Hells Angels motorcycle gang member Wayne Rodney Schneider was found dead at a roadside bush in Sattahip district in Chonburi province.

  • He was found buried in a shallow grave, under the ground at a roadside bush on the road in Sattahip.
  • He was kidnapped by five masked men in Pattaya on Monday morning from his rented house in Jomtien Park Villas housing estate.


Found Via GPS

  • Chonburi police commander Pol Maj Gen Ampol Buarapporn said this morning that the police could locate the pickup truck which the kidnappers rented from a car rental shop on Pattaya Sai 3 road fixed with GPS tracking system.
  • Pattaya police chief Pol Col Sukthat Pumpunmuang said the team of police went to the location and found Tyre tracks of the pickup truck driving 100 meters off the road into the roadside bush.
  • They searched the area and found the burial ground where there were fresh traces of soils being dug out.
  • The team dug the place and found his naked and tattooed body buried two meters deep under the ground.

Injuries Obtain By The Murder Victim

  • He had cut on his left eyebrow and his neck was also broken indicating he was beaten up and killed before burying him.
  • His body was sent to Chonburi hospital for forensic autopsy today.
  • Police said they have issued warrant for the arrest of a 26-year-old Australian man, Antonio Bagnato, for allegedly conspiring with four others to kidnap Mr Schneider from his home in Pattaya.
  • The wanted suspect was his partner in a Sydney fitness business..

What Did They Know About The Australian in Thailand?

Police said Mr Schneider had been living in Pattaya for a month. He reportedly was invited to share a house by Amad Malkoun, a former leader of Australias criminal Comancheros biker gang. In April, the Melbourne Herald-Sun reported that Mr Malkoun had become estranged from his gang amid pressure from law enforcement. He had since relocated to Dubai.


Mr Schneider Was An Ex-Hells Angel


Mr Schneiders Hells Angels has since supplanted the Comancheros as Australia's top outlaw gang, according to the Post. Australia's ABC News said Thai police said they were working with Australian law enforcement on the case and had made contact with Mr Schneider's Thai wife, who also is in Dubai.

Earlier Pol Col Sukthat Pumpunmuang, told ABC that Schneider who has a long criminal history dating back at least 10 years is on a watch-list for Australian police to follow up and also follow up his friends in a gang.

Mr Schneider was arrested six years ago for drug trafficking, obstruction of justice, and involvement in the theft of 5 million baht from a Melbourne casino. In 2007, he was on New South Wales most wanted list for 18 months over the shooting of a bouncer outside the Sapphire Suite nightclub in Kings Cross in 2006. Officers found paraphernalia used for taking crystal methamphetamine inside the house and Thai media photographed two bullet casings and spatters of blood outside. 
The motive behind the kidnap is not known, but police are working on a theory that the incident may involve a personal conflict between Mr Schneider and other bikers, or a dispute over an illegal drug business. 
In the early hours of Monday, a 38-year-old Australian was abducted from the front of his luxury villa in Jomtien. Police are searching for a fellow Australian who is suspected of being part of a 5-man gang who were involved in the victim’s abduction.
The incident occurred at the Jomtien Park Villas in Soi 17 off the Tepprasit Road just before 5am and was witnessed by two Security Guards at the Estate who described how 5 men, all wearing balaclavas attacked Mr. Wayne Schneider in front of his home and then placed him inside a Toyota Vigo pick-up while he was unconscious. - 
Source - www.pattayaone.net