Word: leclerc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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. Only a few days earlier, Bertrand de Muralt, a Leclerc partner and reserve Swiss army major, had shot himself with his revolver. Robert Leclerc, for whom the bank is named, suffered a heart attack...
Huge Losses. Leclerc is the 28th Swiss bank to go broke since 1970. Yet its problems are relatively insignificant compared with the scandal that is still building around one of Switzerland's Big Three banks, the Crédit Suisse (assets: $17 billion). For the past month, the Swiss banking community has reeled from one disclosure after another implicating executives of Crédit Suisse's Chiasso branch in illegal manipulation that resulted in huge losses. Crédit Suisse concedes that the sum could reach $100 million. Some outside sources put the potential losses as high...
Whatever his true identity, Gauthier left a trail of druggings, robberies and murders that stretches from Hong Kong to Kathmandu-and perhaps farther. Also arrested in another Delhi hotel a few days later was Gauthier's alleged chief accomplice, Marie-Andrée Leclerc, 31, a French-Canadian medical secretary who met and fell in love with him on a visit to Bangkok. Police believe that the pair committed at least nine murders in India, five in Thailand and two in Nepal. They are also suspected of crimes in Canada, France, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Pakistan and South Viet...
Detective Tuli credits Gauthier with "one of the sharpest minds I have come across." He says Gauthier and Leclerc watched Air France flights for likely targets, then checked into the same hotel as the new arrivals. Taking their victims out for a good time, they liked to order chicken curry, apparently because it disguised the taste of the still unidentified drug that they used to poison them...
...those who lived to tell about the experience was a 36-year-old American schoolteacher who met Gauthier and Leclerc in his Hong Kong hotel last January, went to dinner with them, then returned to their hotel room at the new harbor-front Sheraton. Six days later he was found in a drugged stupor, wandering in his underwear in the hotel corridor. His only recollection: "I felt very dizzy, and I realized I needed help." His passport and money were gone...