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 Former ABN Amro Netherlands Chief Executive Officer Jan Peter Schmittmann committed suicide after killing his wife and one of his daughters, Dutch police said, as his family said he suffered from depression. 
 
 The Dutch forensic institute has “confirmed suspicions” of a murder-suicide, the police said in a statement today. Schmittmann’s family was cited as saying in the statement that “we knew Jan Peter struggled with severe depression.” 
 
 Schmittmann, 57, and his wife and daughter were found at their home in Laren, 32 kilometers (20 miles) southeast of Amsterdam, on April 5 after the police received a call from an acquaintance who said something might be wrong at the property. Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf identified the dead women as Schmittman’s 57-year-old wife, Nelly, and their daughter Babette, 22. 
 
 “A farewell letter has been found inside the house,” the police said in the statement. The authorities declined further comment on the letter’s contents and time and cause of death. 
 
 Schmittmann, who was born in Maartensdijk, Netherlands, is survived by one daughter, who wasn’t at home and was informed by officers of the death of her family, the police said on April 5. 
 
 “We are deeply shocked and devastated by this incomprehensible news,” Schmittmann’s family said in the police statement. “Our first concern now is supporting the remaining daughter in coping with this indescribable grief.” 
 
 De Telegraaf reported today that Schmittmann hanged himself, citing two people it didn’t identify. 
 
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 Schmittmann joined ABN Amro Holding NV, once among Europe’s biggest banks, in 1983 as an assistant relationship manager and was named head of the lender’s Dutch unit in 2003. As a member of the bank’s executive board, he was responsible for restructuring it along the lines agreed by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Fortis and Banco Santander SA in their three-way takeover of the lender in 2007. 
 
 A year after the biggest financial-services takeover in history, the credit crunch drove Fortis to the verge of collapse, forcing the Netherlands to take over its Dutch banking and insurance units, including assets of the former ABN Amro in 2008. The Dutch asked Gerrit Zalm to lead the company now called ABN Amro Group NV. 
 
 On the eve of the nationalization, Schmittmann was dismissed by the Dutch Finance Ministry, he told lawmakers in a 2011 hearing. He received an 8 million-euro ($11 million) severance payment, less than what he was entitled to under his contract and more than the Dutch government sought to pay. 
 
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 Schmittmann owned 2phase2, a management company for investments and financial transactions, according to information on LinkedIn Corp.’s professional social-networking website. He’s also co-founder of 5 Park Lane BV, and last year returned to banking as a supervisory board member at Delta Lloyd Bank NV. 
 
 Recent deaths by finance workers around the world have raised concerns of mental health and stress levels in the industry. 
 
 A coroner in London last month started an inquest into the apparent suicide of William Broeksmit, 58, a retired Deutsche Bank AG risk executive found dead in his London home in January. The inquest for Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old vice president in technology operations at JPMorgan Chase & Co., who died after falling from the firm’s 33-story London headquarters, is scheduled for late May. 
 
 In 2009, former ABN Amro Holding NV Chief Financial Officer Huibert Boumeester, 49, took his life while suffering from depression, according to the coroner investigating his death. The banker was found dead from gunshot wounds by police that June in woodlands 25 miles west of his London home. 
 
 To contact the reporters on this story: Maud van Gaal in Amsterdam at mvangaal@bloomberg.net; Martijn van der Starre in Amsterdam at vanderstarre@bloomberg.net 
 
 To contact the editors responsible for this story: Frank Connelly at fconnelly@bloomberg.net; Mariajose Vera at mvera1@bloomberg.net Keith Campbell, Steven Crabill ||||| A Liechtenstein banker was shot dead after a feud involving an investment fund, and police said they believe the alleged killer later committed suicide. 
 
 The 48-year-old man was shot in the underground garage of a financial institution in Balzers at 7:30 a.m. local time, the Liechtenstein police said on their website today. Neither the victim nor the institution was identified in the statement. The deceased was Juergen Frick, CEO of Bank Frick & Co. AG, according to Switzerland’s Radio 1, which cited employees of his bank. 
 
 The suspect, Juergen Hermann, fled the scene in a Smart car with Liechtenstein license plates, according to police. The authorities later said Hermann appears to have committed suicide after they found the vehicle in Ruggell, 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Balzers, with his passport and a confession. 
 
 “Service dogs were able to track the suspect to the banks of the Rhine,” police said in a statement. “Clothing belonging to the suspect was found there. Because of the circumstances and the evidence, suicide has to be assumed.” 
 
 Calls to Bank Frick were answered by a voice-mail message saying the company is closed because of “a death.” It gave no further details. A police spokesman didn’t immediately respond to telephone calls and e-mails seeking comment. 
 
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 Bank Frick & Co., founded in 1998, specializes in wealth management and investment advice. The firm managed about 3.5 billion Swiss francs ($3.9 billion) of assets on behalf of clients at the end of 2012, according to its website. The company’s chairman is Mario Frick, who was prime minister of Liechtenstein from 1993 to 2001. 
 
 Bank Frick was previously partly owned by Bawag PSK Bank AG, the Austrian lender that almost collapsed because of its links with failed U.S. futures firm Refco Inc. Bawag owned 26 percent and Refco had a 4 percent holding, according to a report by the Austrian Press Agency. After Austria led a bailout of Bawag in 2006, the company sold its stake in Bank Frick, according to a paper published the following year on the European Commission’s website. 
 
 Hermann is a fund manager who has been embroiled in a dispute with the Liechtenstein government and Bank Frick for many years, according to Radio 1. 
 
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 The Liechtenstein government and the country’s Financial Market Authority “illegally destroyed my investment company Hermann Finance and its funds, depriving me of my livelihood,” according to a website registered under the name Juergen Hermann of Hermann Finance AG. 
 
 He has filed lawsuits seeking recovery of 200 million Swiss francs from the government and 33 million francs from Bank Frick, according to the website. The lender “illegally enriched itself,” among other alleged crimes, it said. 
 
 A representative of Hermann’s lawyer declined to comment when reached by telephone. A call to an office telephone number listed on Hermann Finance’s website was answered by an employee of a law firm who said his company isn’t related to Hermann Finance. 
 
 Hermann had been “publicly hostile” to the country’s Financial Market Authority and some of its employees, forcing it to take security measures in consultation with the police, FMA spokesman Beat Krieger said in an e-mail today. 
 
 Liechtenstein, a country of 36,800 people wedged between Switzerland and Austria, hasn’t seen a homicide since 2011, when three people lost their lives to crime, police said in their annual report. Bank Frick is one of 17 lenders in the Alpine country, according to the Liechtenstein Banking Association. 
 
 To contact the reporters on this story: Jan-Henrik Foerster in Zurich at jforster20@bloomberg.net; Paul Verschuur in Zurich at pverschuur@bloomberg.net 
 
 To contact the editors responsible for this story: Mariajose Vera at mvera1@bloomberg.net James Kraus, John Simpson ||||| Former ABN Amro banker found dead in family murder-suicide 
 
 Police are investigating a murder-suicide at a family home in the wealthy town of Laren, where a former senior ABN Amro banker, his wife and daughter have been found dead. 
 
 Jan Peter Schmittmann, 57, was head of ABN Amro Nederland and left the bank with €8m in compensation when it was nationalised in 2008. 
 
 The body of Schmittmann, his 57-year-old wife and 22-year-old handicapped daughter were found at their large detached home in Laren on Saturday. Another daughter was not at home at the time. 
 
 ‘We have received a lot of additional information since Saturday and that needs looking into,’ a police woman told reporters. 
 
 
 
 The cause of death and more information about what happened in the house will take several days to establish, she said. ||||| Photo (detail) of the suspect released by Liechtenstein police. 
 
 Police in Liechtenstein have launched a hunt for a fund manager suspected of killing a 48-year-old man on Monday morning in the municipality of Balzers, close to the Swiss border. 
 
 The victim was shot dead in the underground parking lot of the Frick Bank at around 7.30am, said police from the principality between Switzerland and Austria. 
 
 A radio station identified the dead man as the bank's CEO, Swiss newspaper Blick reported online. 
 
 National police described the suspect, named in media reports as Jürgen Hermann, as “armed and dangerous”. 
 
 He was travelling in a white and grey Smart car with Liechtenstein licence plates. 
 
 Police said anyone encountering him should exercise "extreme caution". 
 
 Investigators issued a photo of the suspect showing a bald man wearing wire-rim glasses and a tropical shirt. 
 
 Hermann, a resident of Mauren, a small town of 3,700, is known in the country for running a fund company that went bankrupt in 2004, according to Swiss media reports. 
 
 He blamed the Frick Bank in Balzers and Liechtenstein's former office of financial services for the company’s difficulties, launching a 200-million franc ($225-million) lawsuit against the state, 20 Minuten newspaper reported online. 
 
 He took his case to the public by distributing a letter to households across Liechtenstein, casting himself as a “Robin Hood” of the Liechtenstein financial sector, the newspaper said. 
 
 However, his claims were rejected. 
 
 On his own website, Hermann alleges he was ruined by the Liechtenstein "financial mafia". 
 
 A native of Liechtenstein, he spent 18 years in the US, has been married since 1980 and is the father of three children, according to the site. 
 
 In addition to being a fund manager, he claims on the site to be a "cleantech visionary" investing in hydrogen and solar power. 
 
 He also describes himself as an "engineer, inventor and entrepreneur", with more than 30 international patents, who founded companies in the Silicon Valley, Hawaii and Switzerland. 
 
 Anyone with information about the suspect’s whereabouts is asked to phone 423 236 71 11.
– The hunt is on for an "armed and dangerous" man in tiny Liechtenstein. Police say hedge fund manager Juergen Hermann is suspected of shooting and killing the CEO of Bank Frick in an underground parking lot, the Local reports. According to Swiss reports, the victim was Juergen Frick, 48, Bloomberg notes. Hermann fled in a Smart car that has since been recovered; now, "the area is being searched by police with dogs and helicopters," police say. Hermann's company went bankrupt in 2004, and he apparently held the bank partially accountable. It's not the only death rocking the world of finance: In the Netherlands, a former top banker and his wife and daughter have been found dead in their home. Police are investigating that case as a murder-suicide. Jan Peter Schmittmann, 57, was previously in charge of the bank ABN Amro Nederland; when it was nationalized, he left the company. His wife, Nelly, was 57 and their daughter, Babette, 22; another daughter wasn't home during the incident, DutchNews reports. "We hope to be able to shed light on what has happened" over the next few days, police say, per Businessweek. An inquest began last month into the possible suicide of former Deutsche Bank exec William Broeksmit; another is due in May concerning the death of JPMorgan VP Gabriel Magee, who fell from JPMorgan's 33-story building in London, Businessweek reports.