Ex-ABN Banker Schmittmann, Wife, Daughter Found Dead at Home

April 6th, 2014

Via: Bloomberg:

Former ABN Amro Group NV Netherlands Chief Executive Officer Jan Peter Schmittmann, his wife and a daughter were found dead at their home yesterday after a possible “family tragedy,” Dutch police said.

“The bodies of a father and mother and their daughter were found at the property” in the town of Laren, 32 kilometers (20 miles) southeast of Amsterdam, Dutch police said in a statement on their website. Leonie Bosselaar, a police spokeswoman, said in a telephone call with Bloomberg News that the deceased were Schmittmann, 57, and two family members.

The police received a call around 10:30 a.m. local time from a family acquaintance who said something may be wrong at the property, according to the statement. Bosselaar declined to comment further. The police said the two deceased women were 57 and 22.

The Dutch newspaper AD reported, without citing anyone, that the family was discovered by Schmittmann’s second daughter when she arrived home yesterday morning. She was scheduled to travel with her parents to India, where she had an internship lined up, the newspaper said.

Schmittmann joined ABN Amro in 1983 as assistant relationship manager and was named head of the lender’s Dutch unit in 2003. He stepped down from the Amsterdam-based bank in December 2008, after the company was nationalized earlier that year.

5 Responses to “Ex-ABN Banker Schmittmann, Wife, Daughter Found Dead at Home”

  1. prov6yahoo says:

    Does anybody have a good hypothesis of why so many bankers are being suicided?

  2. dale says:

    Sure. It’s the flip side to “It never happened”

  3. dale says:

    I mean, even while it’s happening, it isn’t happening.

  4. Windhorse says:

    It should be law that suicides (and mass slaughter and such as this) publicly list the prescription medications the perpetrator was on. One hundred bucks says this fellow was on an SSRI anti-depressant. I just lost my nurse to this 2 months ago. When I looked up the connections it was incredible.

  5. spOILer says:

    A heads up for Kevin and everyone…

    Juergen Frick, CEO Of Liechtenstein bank Frick & Co. murdered in the bank’s underground garage:

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-07/liechtenstein-police-says-48-year-old-man-killed-in-bank-garage.html

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