FILE - Then Abbey Bank's main enforcement Antonio Horta-Osorio waits for his car to get aft giving grounds to the Treasury Select Committee of British lawmakers astatine the Palace of Westminster successful London, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2009. Credit Suisse says its president Antonio Horta-Osorio has resigned pursuing an interior probe that reportedly turned up that helium had violated quarantine rules intended to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The resignation of Horta-Osorio, a British-Portuguese nationalist who took the occupation hardly 8 months ago, was announced soon aft midnight Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File) (Alastair Grant, AP2009)

GENEVA – Credit Suisse says its president has resigned pursuing an interior probe that reportedly turned up that helium had violated quarantine rules intended to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The resignation of Antonio Horta-Osorio, a British-Portuguese nationalist who took the occupation hardly 8 months ago, was announced soon aft midnight Monday. It is the latest upheaval astatine the top-drawer Swiss slope that has faced an array of caller troubles, including bad bets connected hedge funds and an internal spying scandal.

“I regret that a fig of my idiosyncratic actions person led to difficulties for the slope and compromised my quality to correspond the slope internally and externally,” Horta-Osorio, 57, said successful a connection from the bank, without elaborating.

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“I truthful judge that my resignation is successful the involvement of the slope and its stakeholders astatine this important time.”

Axel Lehmann, a Swiss nationalist and erstwhile enforcement astatine rival slope UBS who joined the Credit Suisse committee successful October, volition instrumentality implicit arsenic chairman.

Credit Suisse said Lehmann “succeeds Antonio Horta-Osório, who resigned pursuing an probe commissioned by the board.” It did not elaborate, and slope spokesperson Dominik von Arx declined to remark beyond the quality release.

Swiss media reported Monday that Horta-Osorio, a erstwhile CEO of Lloyds Banking Group successful Britain, had violated quarantine rules, including traveling to Britain successful December and to the Wimbledon tennis tourney implicit the summer.

Online quality work finews.com, citing 2 sources acquainted with the situation, reported successful precocious December that Horta-Osorio was being investigated implicit allegations of breaking quarantine.

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