A man arrested in Zurich on suspicion of being involved in the theft and leaking of a medical file on injured ex-Formula One champion Michael Schumacher was found hanged in his cell a week ago.<\/p>\n
The man worked as an executive at a Swiss helicopter air rescue company, Rega, which organized the German sportsman’s transport from a French hospital to Switzerland in June, the Zurich prosecutor’s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The suspect, arrested and interrogated by police, had denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
He was being detained in a Zurich police holding cell, the statement said.<\/p>\n
He was found hanged when officers came to bring him breakfast before a scheduled hearing before a judge.<\/p>\n
According to an initial investigation, no one else was involved in his hanging, the prosecutor’s office said.<\/p>\n
Zurich police told AFP they had spotted no signs the man was mentally unstable or suicidal.<\/p>\n
The suspect accused was from Germany, according to the latest reports.<\/p>\n
According to Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper, the man was reportedly a 54-year-old German who lived quietly with his girlfriend in the Swiss canton of St Gallen.<\/p>\n
A long-time friend, who said he went sailing with the \u201ctrustworthy\u201d German only six weeks ago, reportedly said he was someone who \u201cnever spoke about money worries\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was as he always was,\u201d the friend added. \u201cI never would have thought he was capable of something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He used the pseudonym \u201cKagemusha\u201d inspired by a Japanese historical film, the Tages Anzeiger daily reported in its online edition.<\/p>\n
A “Kagemusha” is a political decoy is a person employed to impersonate a politician, to draw attention away from the real person or to take risks on their behalf. This can also apply to military figures, or civilians impersonated for political or espionage purposes.<\/p>\n
The political decoy is an individual who has been selected because of their strong physical resemblance to the person they are impersonating. This resemblance can be strengthened by plastic surgery. Often, such decoys are trained to speak and behave like their ‘target’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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