The Zurich-based Nobel restaurant crown hall is not a place for secret rendezvous. Who feeds whom, can quickly be the talk of the town. If it comes in at a meet, even of a dispute, the headlines hardly prevent. Like last Sunday, as the “NZZ am Sonntag” ran the headline: “CS-Topmann threatened the Familiar of UBS-Khan”.

As the newspaper wrote, were in the crown hall Thomas Gottstein , Switzerland-the chief of the Credit Suisse , and an unspecified confidence-man Iqbal Khan – the top moved a few weeks ago, under the roar of Credit Suisse in the chief days of the UBS – in the hair.

Thomas Gottstein to have said that he can make the “Khan-Familiar, as well as Khan himself has done (“kill”)” will. The verbally Challenged was “so shocked” that he had applied “immediately” to Credit Suisse. The name of the Khan-trust in the newspaper is not called. It relied on the statements of “several sources”.

newspaper tilts article after the Intervention of the Prosecutor

Bank Kenner suspected immediately that it might the confidence man Khan actually only one act: the PR consultant Aloys Hirzel. The “trade newspaper” received confirmation that it was, in fact, of the nearly 70-year-old Grand Seigneur of the Swiss PR sector – the flagship of the influential communications Agency, Hirzel Neef Schmid.

But the article was overturned after an Intervention of the media advocate of Hirzel in the last second from the output. Not stopped the advance notice of the report that was already sent could be against it.

The PR consultant Aloys Hirzel was attacked by Thomas Gottstein verbally. Photo: PD

The article in the “Handelszeitung” would have let the scandal in a different light. Thus, Gottstein gluten that brought the fact to know that the well-known PR Agency had for many years accompanied the Credit Suisse communicative, Aloys Hirzel now but Khan stands to the side.

Agency-co-founder Jörg Neef had advised Credit Suisse variables, such as Walter kielholz and Urs Rohner. To came out of a collaboration with Tidjane Thiam it, however. 2016 Hirzel of Gottstein received the award, to accompany the IPO of the Swiss Credit Suisse unit, which was however called off due to lack of interest.

Khan’s lawyer wrote a Letter to Urs Rohner

The Bank informed of the incident: “We confirm that Thomas Gottstein has crossed the beginning of October happens to be the personally well-known Person in a Restaurant in Zurich.” On this occasion, Gottstein have expressed that the media reports on the shading affair around Iqbal Khan would have him and his Team motivate in addition to beat its competition in the Switzerland also in the future.

“In the Wake of apologized Gottstein for the emotion,” said the Credit Suisse spokesman. This had been accepted by the Person concerned. “Threats were not uttered.”

Spicy: Aloys Hirzel complained in person to the Credit Suisse, but reported the incident to the lawyer of Iqbal Khan. This, wrote again a Letter to the lawyers of Credit Suisse Chairman Urs Rohner.

Created: 24.10.2019, 20:54 PM