Greetings
Regards and thanks for your Attention.
I am Gertjan Vlieghe - Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Bank of
England. (http://www.bankofengland.co.uk).
Please ignored the length of this message and take your time to read
this message for your understanding. This is very important
I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment
he placed under our banks management five years ago. I would
respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail
confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by
as a result of this mail
I contacted you independently of our investigation and no one is
informed of this communication. I would like to intimate you with
certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you. In 2009, the
subject matter: Engineer Sylvestre Paccione came to our bank to engage
in business discussion with our private banking division. I was a bond
strategist and director at Deutsche Bank at that time.
He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Seventy Eight
Million Three Hundred Thousand Pounds, which he wished to have us turn
over (invest) on his behalf. I was the officer assigned to his case; I
made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief
operations officer of the private banking sector, especially given the
volume of funds he wished to put into our bank. We met on numerous
occasions prior to any investments being placed. I encouraged him to
consider various growth funds with prime ratings. The favored route in
my advice to customers is to start by accessing data on 6000
traditional stocks and bond managers and 2000 managers of alternative
investments. Based on my advice, we spun the money around various
opportunities and made attractive margins for our first months of
operation, the accrued profit and interest stood at this point at over
ten million United States Dollars, this margin was not the full
potential of the fund but he desired low risk guarantied returns on
investments.
In mid-2010, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed
to make an urgent landed property investment requiring cash payments
in Kingdom of Spain. He directed that I liquidate the funds and
deposit it with a security firm in Diplomatic Reserve. I informed him
that HSBC would have to make special arrangements to have this done
and in order not to circumvent due process, the bank would have to
make a 9.5 % deduction from the funds to cater for banking and
statutory charges. He complained about the charges but later came
around when I explained to him the complexities of the task he was
asking of us. Cash movement across borders has become especially
strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my affiliate in here
in London and made the funds available to the security firm.
I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise
instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited at the
Diplomatic Reserve based security consultancy firm, (Diplomatic
Reserve & Security company). This is a specialist private firm that
accepts deposits from high net worth individuals and blue chip
corporations that handle valuable products or undertake transactions
that need immediate access to cash. This small and highly private
organization is familiar especially to the highly placed and
well-connected organizations. In line with instructions,the money was
deposited with Diplomatic Reserve & Security Company. The deceased
told me he wanted the money there in anticipation of his arrival from
MALTA later that week. This was the last communication we had, this
transpired around 25th October 2010. In June last year, we got a call
from Diplomatic Reserve & Security company informing us that the
activity of that particular portfolio.
This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the
fact that I managed the private banking sector I was the only one who
knew about the deposit at Diplomatic Reserve & Security Company, and I
could not understand why the deceased had not come forward to claim
his deposit. I made futile efforts to locate the deceased. I
immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal
investigations department of Bristol & West. Four days later,
information started to trickle in, apparently our client was dead. A
person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack
in Cannes, South of France. We were soon enough able to identify the
body and cause of death was confirmed. The bank immediately launched
an investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert about
the situation and also to come forward to claim his estate. If you are
familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our
services usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels of detachment
from conventional processes. In his bio-data form, he listed no next
of kin.
In the field of private banking, opening an account with us means no
one will know of its existence, accounts are rarely held
