City banker's suicide after pounds 50bn deal; INQUEST.Byline: EUAN STRETCH A MULTI-millionaire City banker shot himself in the head after quitting his job following a disastrous pounds 50billion takeover deal, an inquest heard yesterday . The body of 49-year-old Huibert Boumeester was found in woodland six days after he went missing in June. The Dutch father of two, who was said to be on pounds 600,000-a-year, left a note for his wife saying he "did not feel he could go on" due to "immeasurable depression". He left ABN Amro ABN AMRO Algemene Bank Nederland-Amsterdam Roterdam Bank (Dutch bank) in 2008 after its takeover plunged buyers RBS RBS Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Role Based Security RBS Rollback Segment RBS Rare Book School (University of Virginia) RBS Rural Business Cooperative Service RBS Ribosome Binding Site (genetics) and its then boss, Fred Goodwin Sir Frederick Anderson Goodwin (born 17 August 1958) is a Scottish banker, the current chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland group. Biography Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, his mother was of German Jewish heritage, his father is a Scottish Protestant. , into crisis. But his wife Frederique, of Belgravia, London, said her husband, who was diagnosed with depression, was "feeling better and starting to look for a new job" when he died. In a written statement to the hearing in Windsor, Berks -near where Mr Boumeester was found - she said: "I know he had suicidal thoughts, but I thought those had all gone." Verdict: Suicide. CAPTION(S): DEPRESSED Mr Boumeester |
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