French-Israeli banker with ties to disgraced former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn dies in apparent suicide
By JPOST.COM STAFFPublished: OCTOBER 24, 2014 17:15Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of International Monetary Fund, leaves a New York courthouse(photo credit: REUTERS)
Thierry Leyne, a banker who held dual French and Israeli citizenship, reportedly leapt to his death from his 23rd-floor luxury apartment in central Tel Aviv. He was 48 years old.
A top business associate of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn committed suicide in Tel Aviv on Thursday, according to numerous reports.Thierry Leyne, a banker who held dual French and Israeli citizenship, reportedly leapt to his death from his 23rd-floor luxury apartment in central Tel Aviv. He was 48 years old. function addVidazooScript(){ console.log("render vidazoo script"); const div = document.getElementById("divVidazoo"); let scp = document.createElement("script"); scp.src = 'https://static.vidazoo.com/basev/vwpt.js'; scp.setAttribute('data-widget-id', '6230c3985d5d60e5cdb4ac0c'); scp.setAttribute('defer', ''); div.appendChild(scp); } const isSafari = /^((?!chrome|android).)*safari/i.test(navigator.userAgent); if(isSafari === false){console.log("vidazoo yes, no safari"); addVidazooScript(); }else{console.log("vidazoo no, yes safari");} According to The New York Times, Leyne and Strauss-Kahn formed an investment banking firm, LSK and Partners, last year.Strauss-Kahn began work last year as economic adviser to the Serbian government, his latest incarnation since a sex scandal cost him his job and ruined his French presidential ambitions.AdvertisementStrauss-Kahn who has been initially engaged for three months and will take no salary, told a news conference that he and his team had "no magic wand or silver bullet" for the shaky economy of the European Union candidate.
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