A high flying British trader has been arrested in Hong Kong after his £380,000 Ferrari super-car hit and killed security guard.
Rob Ebert, head of Asian equities trading for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong was held on on suspicion of dangerous driving and causing death but has not been charged.
Police said they are investigating the accident in Yau Ma Tei district of the former colony on Tuesday that resulted in the death of the 53-year-old man, according to a statement.
A car driven by a 48-year-old “foreign man” collided with another car as it was entering a car park, before hitting barriers and the victim.
Reports in the South China Morning Post website said that the trader’s black Ferrari 458 Spider was impounded in a government vehicle plant in Ho Man Tin.
The crash happened at the ground-floor entrance of the Waterfront car park in Austin Road West in Kowloon.
A police source told the paper: “We are investigating whether the car was driving beyond the speed limit of 30km/h at the time of the accident.”
According to police, the sports car ran out of control while taking a sharp right hand bend.
“It went straight into the Waterfront car park’s entrance, where it slammed into plastic barriers filled with water and allegedly hit the security guard,” the source said.
The source said flying fragments hit a Maserati sports car which was about to drive out of the car park.
The unnamed security guard, 53, suffered multiple injuries and was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he was declared dead at about 2pm.
Mr Ebert is believed to driving to his Deutsche Bank office at the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon at the time of the crash. He was released on bail in the early hours of Wednesday and has to report back in mid-July, the police said.
He took up his current post as Deutsche Bank’s head of equities in Asian, Japan and Australia just two month ago, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Before that he was head of equity product distribution for five years, also based in Hong Kong.
He joined Deutsche Bank in 1996 was based in London between 2000 and 2008, working his way up to become the bank’s head of execution sales in Europe, according to Companies House records. He also had spells working in New York and Tokyo.
He and former England football manager Sven Goran Eriksson were fellow directors in a company called Green Park Emissions Reductions LLP.
