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Spokesman for Italian bank Monte Paschi di Siena found dead
The spokesman of Monte Paschi di Siena, the Italian bank at the centre of an investigation into alleged corruption and fraud, has been found dead at the bank's Siena headquarters.
Monte dei Paschi is the world's oldest bank, dating back to 1472 Photo: Alamy
David Rossi was the head of the bank's communications unit.
A
witness told Reuters that his body, which had been covered with a
sheet, lay beneath an open window overlooking a back street outside the
building, a restored 14th century fortress.
The
judicial source told Reuters that prosecutors were investigating
whether Rossi had committed suicide. Italian news agencies ANSA and AGI
reported that he had killed himself.
Rossi,
born in 1961, was the spokesman of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena's
foundation, the bank's biggest shareholder, from 2001 to 2006. When
Giuseppe Mussari, the foundation's chairman, became chairman of the bank
in 2006, Rossi remained his spokesman.
Mussari
is under investigation in the probe on allegations of misleading
regulators, market manipulation and false information in the prospectus
of the Antonveneta deal.
