Fritz Senn

And apparently he read in an American newspaper that the south of Ireland, Cork, was the safest place in Europe.

So he's looking for a place and eventually he found this estate, Lizard Estate.

He purchased it.

But he did not do so in his capacity as a Secret Service officer.

He did it privately and he got some friends on board.

And so it was all paid privately.

But then it came to light in the late 1970s.

He was exposed.

He was quite a scandal in Switzerland.

And he was immediately, of course, fired.

So he went into early retirement and he returned to Ireland, to Cork, to this artist state.

And he died there in 2011.

He was an Ireland fan.

He would have the government in the hotels, like de Gaulle, you know.

So Bachmann purchased the interiors of a Jewish antique bar.

They were dismembered and numbered and shipped to Switzerland.

So what happened here in Switzerland?

He tried to sell it to some restaurant consortium or to some chain or other, but that failed.

So we asked, actually it was the precursor bank of today's Union Bank of Switzerland, Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft.

They had actually managed the whole transfer.