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BofA Banker Arrested In Hong Kong For Double Murder Of Two Prostitutes, One Victim Was Stuffed In A Suitcase
The excesses of 1980s New York investment banking as captured best (and with just a dose of hyperbole) by Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho may be long gone in the US, but they certainly are alive and well in other banking meccas, such as the one place where every financier wants to work these days (thanks to the Chinese government making it rain credit): Hong Kong. It is here that yesterday a 29-year-old British banker, Rurik Jutting, a Cambridge University grad and current Bank of America Merrill Lynch, former Barclays employee, was arrested in connection with the grisly murder of two prostitutes. One of the two victims had been hidden in a suitcase on a balcony, while the other, a foreign woman of between 25 and 30, was found lying inside the apartment with wounds to her neck and buttocks, the police said in a statement.
As Reuters reports, the Hong Kong police said that a 29-year-old foreign man had been detained earlier that day after two women were found dead in an expensive apartment in Wan Chai, a central city district known for its night life.
A spokesman for Bank of America Merrill Lynch told Reuters on Sunday that the U.S. bank had, until recently, an employee bearing the same name as a man Hong Kong media have described as the chief suspect in the double murder case. Bank of America Merrill Lynch would not give more details nor clarify when the person had left the bank.
Britain's Foreign Office in London said on Saturday a British national had been arrested in Hong Kong, without specifying the nature of any suspected crime.
The details of the crime are straight out of American Psycho 2: the Hong Kong Sequel. One of the murdered women was aged between 25 and 30 and had cut wounds to her neck and buttock, according to a police statement. The second woman’s body, also with neck injuries, was discovered in a suitcase on the apartment’s balcony, the police said. A knife was seized at the scene.
According to the WSJ, the arrested suspect, who called police to the apartment in the early hours of Nov. 1, was until recently a Hong Kong-based employee of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Filings with Hong Kong’s securities regulator show that the suspect was an employee with the bank as recently as Oct. 31.The man had called police in the early hours of Saturday and asked them to investigate the case, police said.
Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper said the suspect had taken about 2,000 photographs and some video footage of the victims after the killings including close-ups of their wounds. Local media said the two women were prostitutes.
The apartment where the bodies were found is on the 31st floor in a building popular with financial professionals, where average rents are about HK$30,000 (nearly $4,000) a month.
According to the Telegraph the suspect, who had previously worked at Barclays from 2008 until 2010 before moving to BofA, and specifically its Hong Kong office in July last year, had apparently vanished from his workplace a week ago. It has also been reported that he resigned from his post days before news of the murders emerged.
And as usual in situations like these, the UK's Daily Mail has the granular details. It reports that the British banker arrested on suspicion of a double murder in Hong Kong has been identified as 29-year-old Rurik Jutting.
Mr Jutting, who attended Cambridge University, is being held by police after the bodies of two prostitutes were discovered in his up-market apartment in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Officers found the women, thought to be a 25-year-old from Indonesia and a 30-year-old from the Philippines, after Mr Jutting allegedly called police to the address, which is located near the city's red light district. The naked body of the Filipina victim, who had suffered a series of knife wounds, was found inside the 31st-floor apartment in J Residence - a development of exclusive properties in the city's Wan Chai district that are popular with young expatriate executives.
The second woman was reportedly discovered naked and partially decapitated in a suitcase on the balcony of the apartment. She is believed to have been tied up and to have been left there for around a week.
Sex toys and cocaine were also reportedly found, along with a knife which was seized by officers.
Mr Jutting's phone is today being examined by police in a bid to identify possible further victims, according to the South China Morning Post.
It is understood that photos of the woman who was found in the suitcase, apparently taken after she died, were among roughly 2,000 that officers found on the device.
Mr Jutting attended Winchester College, an independent boys school in Hampshire, before continuing his studies in history and law at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he became secretary of the history society.
He appears to have worked at Barclays in London between 2008 and 2010, when he took a job with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He was moved to the bank's Hong Kong office in July last year.
A spokesman for Bank of America Merrill Lynch confirmed that it had previously employed a man by the same name but would not give more details nor clarify when the person had left the bank.
CCTV footage from the apartment block, located near Hong Kong's red light district, showed the banker and the Filipina woman returning to the 31st floor shortly after midnight local time yesterday.
He allegedly called police to his home at 3.42am, shortly after the woman he was seen with is believed to have been killed.
She was found with two wounds to her neck and her throat had been slashed. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The body on the balcony, wrapped in a carpet and inside a black suitcase, which measured about three feet by 18 inches, was not found by police until eight hours later.
A police source quoted by the South China Morning Post said: ‘She was nearly decapitated and her hands and legs were bound with ropes. ‘She was naked and wrapped in a towel before being stuffed into the suitcase. Her passport was found at the scene.'
Wan Chai, the district where the apartment is located, is known for its bustling nightclub scene of ‘girly bars,’ popular with expatriate men and staffed by sex workers from South East Asia. Police have today been contacting nearby bars in an attempt to find out more about the background of the two murdered women.
One resident in the 40-storey block, where most of the residents are expatriates, said he had noticed an unusual smell in recent days. He told the South China Morning Post that there had been 'a stink in the building like a dead animal'.
And just like that, the worst excesses of the "peak banking" days from 1980, when sadly scense like these were a frequent occurence, are back.
Rurick Jutting, a Cambridge University graduate, has been named as the suspect of the double murder
Government workers remove the body of a woman who was found dead at a flat in Hong Kong's Wan chai district in the early hours of this morning. A British man was been arrested in connection with the murders.
A second victim was found stuffed inside a suitcase on the balcony of the residential flat in Hong Kong
The 40-storey J Residence is reportedly a high-end development favoured by junior expatriate bankers
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He was part of that whole Yale thing.
He was doing "G-ds work"
He was whoreding, like all good banksters.
That's a pretty damn big suitcase.....are you going away somewhere for a long time.....or do you have a dead prostitute in there?
one can only hope that justice is done, with his employer being assessed a fine for his misconduct
He's dead.
If he had only done it in NYC, Eric Holder would have never prosecuted. It would have been another one of those accidental deaths where the person is in a suitcase.
See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2505060/MI6-spy-dead-bag-died-tr...
The details we are given here seem more than a little strange. So he's a serial killer who's conscience suddenly makes him call the police to confess? Really, a banker with a conscience? Maybe the Easter Bunny did it. Never trust cases with unusual circumstances. Most times things are as they seem but if one thing is unusual often others things are as well.
Maybe it's a setup so the Chinese can kick BofA out. Maybe the demon found in inside each bankster just got extra frisky. Who knows but I won't bet on the Banker-with-a-conscience explanation.
Put him in jail just like Jon Corzine! Oh wait....
He came up with the best strategy to avoid nail-gun accident.
What, thats not OK?
Just the practice round for Bohemian Grove, for Pete's sakes. Give the man a bye.
The next logical step after cocaine and hookers just isn't enough to meet the need any more.
American Psycho ending monologue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuTmyIOQIhw
I concur DeadFred, something is very funny here. Might be very well a set up.But why?
This is awful. Has he ever heard of a garment bag, man?
The oldest profession neatly packaged.
It helps preserve the freshness.
She love him long time, but apparently not long enough.
Slitting their throats ?! Where Dexter to decipher the blood spatter? Had to be uber messy and not once, but he slashed twice -- two girls?!
Chinese Takee-Outee
Bankers murder people every day, this baller just had the fortitude to actuall get blood on his Saville Row suit.
Exactly, and now they will probably promote him to being the head of some department as soon as his little legal troubles are over.
Yeah, he's just building his banker resume. Well, at least he gets to meet some HK triad memeber/cell mates in HK prison -- Misters Hung Lo, Longer Wan, Ho Lee Kow and He Tu Phat. Pimps in no country like their working girls stuffed in suticases.
No, there's no way he was wearing his suit when he did it.
Banksters will be banksters. The only surprise is that he did not work for JPMorgan Chase.
If he had the girls would have been found thrown off a 33rd floor roof.
Get it 33rd as in Masons?
Subtle this morning, aren't we Knuks
Bank of America = one of the worst shit banks ever.
They picked up Merrill Lynch with govt money after Stan O'Neil destroyed Merrill with mortgage backs. Another affirmative action suckcess story like Franklin Raines and Obola.
Self-Defense.
I'm sure he has a bright future marketing food processor tools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O-SX_W0lrQ
Let's just hope his mugshot looks better than this....
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/shamwow-guy-slap-chop-bust?page=0
Will he get off with a tiny fine like the rest of his bankster buddies do for their criminal activity?
They think they are above the law, disgusting!
Geez, bankers are no longer content with killing themselves-now they killer other people.
LOL, you must be Rip Van Winkle, huh? Bankers have been in the death business forever. Many many millions of peoples blood all over their hands. And those weren't other bankers either. How is it you haven't noticed?
More than 6,000,000 cases of mortgage fraud in the land of the free before the financial crisis of 2008. Not a single bankster arrested. Yet the FBI found resources to infiltrate Occupy Wall Street protests and destroy them.
If he had committed those murders in the land of the free, his chance of getting away scot free was much higher. Rather like $2.5 billion stolen by cops from 62,000 motorists and not a single cop arrested.
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves.
The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens.
FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) … reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-cra...
Hard to imagine a more striking example of the corruption of law enforcement.
"6,000,000 cases of fraud"
The bankers did choose this number to commemorate their ancestors. Prosecuting such a moving and emotional and symbolic tribute by the tribe, would be antisemitic. You know it and you still complain of so called "injustice" ? /sarc
...suitcase suicide without a doubt.
Yeah...and it only took HK police eight hours to find her week long decomposing body...stuffed in a suitcase...on the apartment balcony.
Thats some crack Big City investigative work being done right there...lol.
They still haven't looked in the fridge.
I love ice pops
Might want to look in the oven too ;-)
No, that would be Deutche Bank in Berlin.
lol...I was listening to the radio one day coming home and they reported that a tunnel had been discovered under the border with Mexico. They actually got an audio quote from some douchebag authority figure stating "We suspect it was being used for smuggling drugs and people."
Well I thought to myself, we're clearly getting our money's worth from that brilliant SOB ;-)
There are more than one of those tunnels. I actually knew a guy that worked on the construction of one of those tunnels. He told me the man who supposedly owned it sold it for $1m to someone in the mexican mafia. This guy, a very good concrete man, I knew said he couldn't handle the suspense so decided to work in the US construction industry, as it paid well and was easy to get good employment. One of his other jobs he told me of was in building a hanger under Clintons library. He said he didnt know the cost, but it was monumental. Way more concrete and construction involved than some jobs he did where he knew the costs were over a hundred million. He said he didnt think that hanger was public knowledge, and I never tried to check it out either.
It was Bush's fault :)
They both waxed regularly, but nice try.
So this is the Brit version of "American Psycho"?
http://youtu.be/B0T6AbWx4Y4
"my mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5YkmjalDg
I think he misunderstood hiring a hooker to stab her in the ass.
"Cocaine, sex toys, and lady boys." All in a days "work" for these fine young Limies, what is it that these banker scum do actually? Like, what is their actual job?
Edited: Due to assuming he was 'Merkin. He just has that smarmy, arrogant, snide look of entitlement about him. Missed the part where he went to Cambridge.
Runk Runtig is an English name ?
Now is if it had been Mohamed I could maybe believe it.
Fuck if I know, it actually sounds like a name my son would type in for an RPG character build.
Actually went and looked it up. Rurik is Kievian-Rus, no idea about Jutting.
Jutting is German, or possibly Dutch.
portruding?
i think you will find his family name is kleinfelt goldfarberg and runk runt is just a kerry cohen cover.
Yes, British banker Rurik Jutting...American psycho.
Words somehow escape me...lol.
I just keep imagining some poor Chinese cop trying to pronounce that! The hilarity that ensues in my own mind amuses me.
Why call the cops if you already committed 2 homicides? Smells like a setup.
I have to agree. Why call the cops???
Surely not a sudden pang of guilt!!!!
These fuckers have no remorse.
Had to go with the setup.....the nailgun thingy was starting to get suspicious.
It is a set up. His bosses found out he was going to actually sell some stocks. My guess is at the banks - no selling is allowed.
Like the old boiler rooms run by mobsters. If the hapless cold calling brokers took a sell order on the crap they were pushing, the mobsters would beat them up. True.
My guess is Rettick Rutting or whatever his name is will get a Nail Gun for Christmas.
A setup cannot be excluded from the realm of possibility, but equally probable is the man being a raving lunatic without an ability to think more than 1 hour ahead.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
How do you know it was coke? Crackheads bounce- tweakers would've called the cops and helped you find the bodies after you dismember the corpses.
Let's not let this sick mutherfucker take our eyes off the real criminals.
Go to BrianMoynihanIsACunt.com for more details.
This is just another shade of banking sickness.
Is castration an option whilst serving life. Otherwise this guy will be fuckin' the concrete walls for kicks.
Someone like that can only go after those who are weaker than him.
Check out the heraldic lion on his jacket patch.
To say the boy was a couple bubbles off plumb is an understatement.
Hopefully he gets in a prison with the Chinese Triads and they find out he brutally murdered two smaller Chinese girls.
Now that Freddie, would be some blind justice ;-)
Isn't that story like from a bad movie? I wonder if there is someone on the top who needs this banker in jail or better dead.. He seems to have escaped the trap. But what we know.
She dissed his business cards?
She told the Brit, 'Size matters...."
skank of amerikunt style hookers and cocaine bitchez gory whory halloweenie
I'm sure his parents are disappointed.
The poor girls!!
Like the British MI6/GCHQ operative Gareth Williams found dead in his bath, padlocked inside a large holdall in his MI6 flat in London, where the heating had been turned up to accelerate body decomposition, if this 25 year old girl was locked into the suitcase on the balcony, then it was definitely suicide. No doubt about it.
Case closed, move along please, nothing to see here.
bankster demanded freebie and didn't want to pay
he wears on his face the eyes of the psychotic behavior with thin mouth like chicken ass hole.
some people on earth looks like that.
From the description of the crime, I think you should CYDerriere.
Ha Barrie, you sure have a way with words!+1
Those British public school chaps gone to banking...
Always keeping up with their school-days hijinks.
I didn't, so where does it say he went to a Public school ?
Um, sorry to break it to you low lives but four grand a month is NOT a posh apartment in HK.
Are we at all surprised?...
And if you were given the choice...
Would you rather label this piece-of-shit the worst psychopath on the planet killing one or two prostitutes? Or the ones in Manhattan and Washington D.C. like George Soros, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, Stan Fischer, Janet Yellen and the entire U.S. Congress that carry out the genocide of millions in the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe as they rape, torture and murder and oh yes "steal" everyone including their own "blind"?
How about they're all guilty of murder. This stupid fucks only mistake was that he didn't kill more people. Perhaps if he can get his death toll into the hundreds of thousands he could be the fucking CEO
Perhaps if he can get his death toll into the hundreds of thousands he could be the fucking CEO
ua
Let me clarify.
All life is precious, and the hooker certainly doesn't deserve it any more or less than the person running away from a tactical missile or an American soldier attempting to rape, torture murder and cut them up either!
Sounds like he's insane but since he's a banker... a $500.00 fine for each victim, 100 hours of community service along with a wink and a promise not to do it again and justice will be served. And of course, consistent with the pattern over the past few years, no admission of wrongdoing.
I'm sure the community service will eventually get waived.
He gets the Charlie Manson Honorary Trophy.
Banker's category.
Ed Geen would be proud.
Ban-cur.
Cur: noun: an aggressive dog or one that is in poor condition, especially a mongrel.
synonyms: mongrel, mutt
"a mangy cur"
informal: a contemptible man.
Bank of America, a continuing criminal enterprise that happens to offer savings and checking accounts.
How much more proof do we need to see that these fucks are just crazy, loonie batshit? They clearly have no feelings regarding their "work".
Life imitates art, no doubt.
Are we sure his name was'nt Patrick Bateman
Are we sure his name was'nt Patrick Bateman
500 yr drought developing still. Are we watching?
I would have gone for a 1000 years....but that's just me.
I'll bet his business cards are colored Bone...with a watermark.
I swear, it has gotten to the point where you can't turn on the TV without seeing someone in a bunny suit.
"Cocaine is a helluva drug"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyQpAiMXkg
skull and bones gets a new meaning in the Banksta world.
A guy from Cambridge who acts like punting on the Cam is undergrad training to scavenging a woman's butt on a Hong Kong balcony, it makes him feel like King Kong on Empire State.
When WS makes its own rules the bankstas are in the best school of crime without punishment.
Rehypoth impunity on packaging a prostitute's ass like it were a CDS.
He was suffering from the "thinning hair syndrome". Have some compassion.
That's what happens when you mix alcohol, meth, cocaine and massive amounts of viagra, which combined with the stress of the job, repressed guilt from being part of the biggest criminal enterprise in human history (International banksters) and Luciferian influences (satan wins yet another soul)
Banksters are evil. I pray daily that my children will not lose their souls by getting snatched up and held in Satan's grasp in the Luciferian bankster world.
Well I upped ya big prosecutor. I am not sure if you meant what you typed tho, seeing as where your bread is buttered. Maybe unfortunate circumstances forced you into being employed by the great Satan?
Stacy Summary: Truly remarkable. Literally the day after the Independent mocks Max for calling bankers ‘murderers’ a British banker from Bank of America Merrill Lynch is arrested for the gruesome murders of two women. Who is always right? Who is always wrong?
Arrest Loyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon don't let them run on the loose.
Max? Max Mosely?
I agree the banksters are evil scum.
The photo of the dude is reversed. He has a patch on his shirt with the initials BHRC. The patch also has a lion rampant facing to the left, but in this case it would be facing to the right as the patch is reversed. These things are important! The cupcake whose face is blurred also has a patch; this patch clearly says: " Five dollar, GI".
They wouldn't take credit cards. What was Jutting supposed to do? Geez.
Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it.
there is a pattern here. bankers watched their superiors walk away scott free from the biggest financial crime in history. they surmised that there is no consequences for their like. they are now assuming they can do whatever they want to whom ever they want and get away with it. they are pretty much correct. how about the boys over at jeffries? can you imagine what goes on that the public doesnt know about? handler's mother invented the barbie doll. i bet richie has quite the collection of ken and barbies in a secret little room at his dwelling.
Well, Cambridge, a little more vetting of the undergraduate applications is in order perhaps?
Dude should have called the cleaner, Winston Wolf. He wastes no time and is very efficient.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWmRTjLRMfU
Was there a sign on the apartment door that said dead hooker storage?
What a hideous looking man.
Jutting: Will you take payment in Yen or high yield corporate bonds?
Prostitute: Neither, both will be worthless soon.
And the rest was history.
I see the 1 second judgements are in and he's guilty. The MSM has brainwashed and trained you well. Those impeccable sources of alleged journalistic integrity Reuters, UKDM & WSJ aren't just propaganda outlets anymore
"He allegedly called police to his home at 3.42am, shortly after the woman he was seen with is believed to have been killed."
Because all double murderers call the police to turn themselves in when they're done
Looks like a frame up
Who and what did he know?
A better guess would be that this is mainland China sacrificing 2 non-chinese & a brotherhood linked associate to send a message to the west to not screw with protests in HK and cause trouble
I am kinda in your camp on this one. If he was set-up, he will be dead long before he ever gets a chance to clear himself in court. He will mysteriously die, while in custody.
This is bizarre..and for the Bank to not immediately say this individual was no longer employed and only that it had someone by the same name tells me he was still employed . It would have been easier if the Bank was involved to throw him off a balcony..31 floors will do..There are two primary types of serial killers..organized and disorganized..and as a banker..well..he would be a detail person..leave no stone unturned..imo..this is too sloppy..not just bold in the open..and with keeping videos at the scene....we are lead to believe by innuendo or context..like snuff..and contacting police..very disorganized....its like suspending disbelief in a hollywood stage props in plan nine from outer space....I have no doubt whatsoever we have types like this up there as well as street level..but it appears this is as Fuku said..a message..we can play hardball too..
My condolonces to those two prostitutes and their families....and prostitutes everywhere..that are victimized like this..high roller appts. in 4000 a month apt..have a scheduler..get his/her arse in there too..
good points. Same applies to his email autoreply(later post)
Between this idiot and the fellow that made news recently when his wife accused him of having her participate in coke sniffing orgies you have to wonder if if something far more powerful is going on as none of these people on self constructed pedestals seem to be able to stay on top of them without being found out.
From Corzine to George W to Holder to Obama to Clinton's, none of them pass the 'morals' test. They run a country which has a number of individuals who believe a moral, ethical and honest foundation is important to coexisting with fellow man.
It is about time that people start practicing what they preach, otherwise life will turn out to be hell and no one, individual, corporation or government is too big to be taken down. History is full of rich, powerful people who ended up at the end of the food chain, dying alone, impovershed and despised.
There is more to this life than meets the eye. Stuff like this proves it.
Everyone knows, UK traders and bankers are the scum of the earth...a bullet to the back of the head is all he deserves
Smug fuck. Look at that smug pricks face! He's probably bullied muppets his whole life and now it's caught up to him. Welcome to the orient shit bag. Now do the honorable thing and hang yourself and spare the women's families your lurid, psychotic BS!
The local Chinese press are calling him the 'Halloween Butcher'. The women have been identified but what happened is not clear as the information is contradictory and therefore unreliable. It was alleged that the suspect said there was a break-in as the flat was 'messy' and many references comparing this with the American Psycho movie.The police are reportedly investigating any links to other murders of prostitutes. Back in 2003, another M L banker was murdered by his wife--'the milkshake murderer' who drugged his malted and then bludgeoned him with an object d'art. She is doing time.
His defense is rock solid: "I thought I was foreclosing and they were resisting eviction. I was just doing my job."
I guess he turned out to be chicken and afraid to walk out into the path of a freight train.
My heart goes out to these women's families. What a dreadful my to die ans I can only imagine the horror they tragically experienced..
Shame on those here at ZH who have made a mockery of this tragedy. How easy you all comment on the psychopathic nature of the banksters and there cohorts but when push comes to shove by the comments on this thread most of you are the same.
52scsc25,
Well said... VERY well said.
This story illustrates why so many people favor socialism, or any other form of centralization. They produce boatloads and boatloads of orphans and widows; which makes it easier to staff child harems... any kind of harem, actually.
China's Declaration of War on the Bankers
The HK Chinese don't care. These girls are just Indo and Pinay domestic help. He will walk. Repeat, he will walk and he knows it. He is crazy but he knew he had fucked up and made some calls to his lawyer then called the HKPD. Probably went into a jetfuel rage and something pushed the red button inside. He woke up the next morning with blood all over himself and said, oh shit.
That's why he felt okay about making the call to the popo. Mark my words. He will be flown out. The fix is in. I am not saying it's right, just saying what is.
Hong Kong the most he will get is Life in Prison, but he may be extradited to the UK which has the same maximum term.
Is he part of ISIS? :)