Yikes!
Friends suggest Li Junjie was planning to return to Canada days before death leap.
Friends of the JP Morgan banker who leapt to his death
from a high rise building in Hong Kong this week, becoming the 7th
financial worker to die under strange circumstances in recent weeks,
suggest that he was planning to return to Canada, adding to the mystery
of the suicide.
Image: Dennis Li Junjie pictured before his suicide (SCMP).
33-year-old Dennis Li Junjie plunged to his death on
Tuesday after jumping from the roof of Chater House, which serves as JP
Morgan’s Asia headquarters. Junjie worked for JP Morgan as a back up
services associate.
His suicide was
blamed on
“the stressful environment of investment banking,” although its timing,
just three weeks after JP Morgan senior manager Gabriel Magee
jumped 500ft from the top of the bank’s headquarters in central London, and amidst
a number of other strange banker deaths, has prompted speculation that something more insidious may be afoot.
Just two days before his suicide, Junjie told a friend
that he planned to return to Toronto, where he had worked as an analyst
at the Royal Bank of Canada.
“RIP … What happened to all the promises and plans you
made? What happened to your return to Toronto? I didn’t know you were
that upset! I will miss you always,”
remarked the friend.
Junjie had recently bought a HK$5.5 million apartment in
Hong Kong and friends commented on how he always had a smile on his
face.
The fact that Junjie did not seem to be depressed and
had made specific future plans suggests that his suicide was quite
spontaneous and may have been in response to information he was told or
had uncovered in the 48 hours preceding his death.
While such an assertion is impossible to prove, it has
been suggested as a factor that could connect the spate of recent banker
deaths.
Could knowledge of an impending financial crash that
outstrips anything previously experienced be the explanation behind the
mystery?
Grady Means, economist and advisor to Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller, predicted that the 4th of March 2014 would be the
date on which the economic collapse accelerated, followed by, “A run on
the bank (that) will start suddenly, build quickly and snowball.”
“The doomsday clock will ring then because the U.S.
economy may fully crash around that date, which will, in turn, bring
down all world economies and all hope of any recovery for the
foreseeable future — certainly over the course of most of our
lifetimes,” wrote Means in a 2012
Washington Times editorial.
With this date fast approaching, any more mysterious banker deaths will only add to the intrigue.
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