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...fellowships, named for international banker Edmond J. Safra, will provide money for up to four graduate fellowships annually...
Billionaire financier Edmond Safra, 67, excelled at making three things: money, friends and enemies. Monaco police were focusing on the latter as possible suspects after the Lebanese founder of the Republic National Bank suffocated in an arson fire at his penthouse. Safra had been barricaded in a bathroom along with his nurse, Viviane Torrent, while knife-wielding assailants, apparently frustrated at being unable to reach Safra, set fire to his domed, ultra-high security Monte Carlo retreat. Monaco's chief prosecutor, Daniel Serdet, reported that robbery was not a motive. Nothing had been stolen. "We are treating the attack...
...only thing he had to fear was fear itself. Billionaire financier Edmond J. Safra died because he was poisoned by the same conspiracy theories that consumed the media in the days following his death. The most commonly discussed scenario in Safra's fiery death had the Russian mob settling a vendetta against the banker for blowing the whistle on money laundering schemes. It turns out this whodunit had a more ordinary culprit: the nurse...
Foul play is confirmed, but the identity of the players may make for the great murder mystery of international finance. Edmond Safra, owner of the Republic National Bank of New York and one of the world's richest men, was murdered Friday in Monte Carlo after two knife-wielding hooded men broke into his penthouse apartment and set a fire after the banker locked himself in a bathroom. Safra and a nanny died in the fire, while his bodyguard was badly injured. The killers have not been apprehended...
...Billionaire banker Edmond Safra was murdered in Monte Carlo this week. Which major U.S. bank did Safra...