Troubled Geneva-based private bank sells up

Swiss wealth manager Banque de Patrimoines Privés Genève has been acquired by Geneva-based Norinvest Holdings for an undisclosed amount.

The deal comes after a troubled period for BPP with its former chairman Francois Rouge arrested in France at the end of 2007. Rouge remains under house arrest.

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