In his first public comments since resigning from Switzerland's largest insurer after being named in the suicide note of its finance chief, Josef Ackermann said it was unfair to blame him for what he called a surprise tragedy.
Speaking to reporters in Berlin at the presentation of a biography that depicts him as a hard-driving perfectionist, the former Deutsche Bank CEO described the death of Pierre Wauthier as a “very tragic event”.
But he said he had barely known the executive who blamed him in a note that he typed before taking his own life last month.
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