BANKING: Suicide in Switzerland

On the placid blue waters of Lake Geneva, which are normally graced by white sailboats and sleek cruisers, last week floated an ugly sight: the body of an apparent suicide. The corpse was a shocking reminder that Switzerland's banking industry, long famed as a citadel of honesty and stability, is being shaken by scandals.

The man in the lake was Charles Bouchard, former manager of Banque Leclerc, a small, discreet Geneva financial institution that Swiss authorities had ordered closed pending an investigation into losses of $12 million or more in real estate ventures....

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