USA: New York police investigate two suspicious packages at financial service companies
Record ID:
862319
USA: New York police investigate two suspicious packages at financial service companies
- Title: USA: New York police investigate two suspicious packages at financial service companies
- Date: 15th December 2011
- Summary: POLICE OFFICERS OUTSIDE ONE OF THE ENTRANCES OF THE NYSE, WHICH IS JUST OPPOSITE 14 WALL STREET AN AMBULANCE PARKED NEAR 14 WALL STREET VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY RESPONDERS LEAVING 14 WALL STREET PEOPLE ENTERING AND EXITING 14 WALL STREET
- Embargoed: 30th December 2011 12:00
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- Location: Usa, Usa
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- Country: USA
- Topics: Crime,Finance
- Reuters ID: LVA9LS4H7FJ1TXCZ9Z85S743NRUT
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- Story Text: There is no threat from a suspicious package that arrived on Wednesday (December 14) in the mail at the Credit Suisse headquarters in New York City that forced part of the building to be evacuated, police said.
In a separate incident the same day, some white powder was discovered in the mail room of 14 Wall Street, an office building near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Security was beefed up in the NYSE area and emergency personnel were on stand-by at the office building, but after their investigation, the police confirmed with Reuters that the white substance turned out to be sugar and was harmless.
The Credit Suisse and the Wall Street building incidents came a week after an envelope containing explosives was sent to the head of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Josef Ackermann, but it was intercepted before it reached him.
Credit Suisse said in a statement that it alerted police after it found two suspicious packages in its mailroom. Police said the company thought the packages looked suspicious after a screening of them showed batteries and wires.
"This is not a problem," New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told Reuters after emergency personnel had done their investigation of the Credit Suisse package, adding that it looked like it was camera equipment. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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