London, July 9 (Inditop.com) A young high-flying city executive of Indian origin – reportedly worried about losing his job – has died after falling from the eighth floor of an expensive London restaurant in a suspected suicide.
The unexpected death of Anjool Malde, who would have celebrated his 25th birthday Thursday and was tipped to be the next big British Asian entrepreneur, shocked the city.
Parents Naina, a teacher, and Bharat, a psychologist, were said to be in deep shock after Anjool fell to his death reportedly wearing his best Hugo Boss suit and holding a glass of champagne at the Coq d’Argent restaurant Sunday.
Naina and Bharat Malde said in a statement: “We are absolutely devastated. Equally we are so touched by the warm words from his many, many friends that alluded both to his tremendous talent and positive, lively spirit. He was an inspiration to so many.”
“Style meant everything to him and that’s how he chose his exit.”
Anjool, an award-winning Oxford University graduate, entrepreneur, former journalist and a musician, was said to be headed for a “spectacular career” in the city.
But the Daily Mail said he was asked to “leave his desk” Friday at Deutsche Bank, where he worked in the global markets department, after an investigation into his use of his work computer.
Although he was not suspended or sacked, the incident marked the first setback in Malde’s life.
British newspapers said Deutsche Bank had also decided to suspend Malde’s access to Bloomberg news service, which allowed him to monitor financial markets as he worked on hedge funds.
“All of us have heard he was about to be suspended by Deutsche Bank and he was upset about it. I know for certain that the bank deleted his Bloomberg account which was not a good sign,” an unnamed friend told The Independent.
“Having access to Bloomberg denied would have left him in difficulty as a trader – he would have been left like a man trying to be a racing driver but without a car,” a City insider told the Daily Mail.
A friend added: “He may have gone away and brooded over the problem and taken things far too much to heart. That is the only explanation for this tragedy.”
Malde gained second place in a national competition to find Britain’s Graduate of the Year in 2005, and his Oxford dissertation on the under-representation and under-achievement of black males in British universities was reproduced by the BBC and the Guardian.
He paid off his university loan by working on his holidays and while studying geography at Oxford University he did radio presenting, journalism, set up his own music company, and held more than 20 positions in various university clubs and societies.
Alongside his Deutsche Bank job, he ran an event management company called AlphaParties.
Hundreds of tributes have poured in on Facebook social networking website after his death was announced.
Malde once told a newspaper: “I have learnt that the sky is the limit since going to university – and that with successful time management skills, one can achieve so much more.”
