The family of a senior partner in the general counsel’s office at the New York branch of big four accountancy practice Deloitte has called for an inquiry following his suicide days after the accounting firm was connected with Standard Chartered’s alleged Iran money laundering scheme.
Daniel Pirron was found dead on 13 August in a car park near his Connecticut home, reports The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London. A week earlier, Deloitte was accused of aiding Standard Chartered in its ‘deception’ involving billions of dollars worth of trades by the New York Department of Financial Services. The London-headquartered bank has since agreed to pay a fine of $340m, while Deloitte has denied the allegation.

Apprehensive

Mr Pirron’s brother, Mike, said the family believes the events are connected.‘My brother didn’t discuss the case but he told me they were in big trouble with this case in London,’ he said. ‘He was clearly apprehensive about a case that was about to come out.’
Asked directly if he believed the two events were connected, Mr Pirron said: ‘The circumstances are just too much of a coincidence.’