The Geneva fortune manager Eric Freymond, accused by one of the heirs of the luxury giant Hermès of having ruined him in a mysterious affair around the disappearance of his actions, committed suicide, reported this Thursday, July 24 the Court of Geneva. According to the Swiss newspaper, this 67 -year -old banker and patron is “Died brutally on Wednesday morning, near his chalet in Saanen, in the canton of Bern”, several of his relatives saying that he “Would have remained life voluntarily”.
Freymond was at the heart of a mysterious unresolved affair on which had investigated at length Libération Around actions belonging to Nicolas Puech, 82, a great-grandson of the founder of the French house of leather goods Hermès. The octogenarian had accused his former fortune manager of having made his actions disappear and filed a complaint against him.
The Geneva justice had innocent Eric Freymond, judging the charges of Nicolas Puech “Too vague and little supported”, recalled the Court of Geneva. But the octogenarian had filed a similar complaint in France. “Eric Freymond was of rare sensitivity, he was broken by the violence of the suspicion, the betrayal and the harshness of a world without indulgence”, reacted François Zimeray and Jessica Finelle, two of his lawyers, in a press release transmitted to AFP.
Often described as cold with the rest of his family, Nicolas Puech had inherited more than 6 million shares, or 5.76 % of Hermès’ capital. One of the big questions in this twist dossier was whether these actions had been sold or not when Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH, had discreetly accumulated participation in his competitor.
The case had experienced a new junk in 2023 when Nicolas Puech said he was ruined, and accused his wealth manager of having used subtle financial arrangements to make his actions disappear.
