It's to take the attention away from LIBOR.
"UK heir’s wife found dead in London; man arrested" by Cassandra Vinograd | Associated Press, July 11, 2012
LONDON — Eva Rausing, one of Britain’s richest women, was found dead in her west London home, and a man has been arrested in connection with her death, British police said Tuesday.
Rausing, 48, was the American-born wife of Hans Kristian Rausing, heir to the multibillion-dollar TetraPak packaging fortune.
Both Rausings have had long-running and often public battles with addiction....
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"Death of US-born socialite, arrest of spouse grab headlines in London" by Alan Cowell | New York Times, July 12, 2012
LONDON — In a story that is part parable of high-society travails and part a police mystery, investigators awaited the outcome Wednesday of tests to discover what killed US-born Eva Rausing, one of Britain’s richest women, after her body was discovered at her home and her husband arrested.
The tale — entwining ultrarich philanthropists, a history of drug abuse, and many unanswered questions — has seized British headlines since Monday. That was when Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, an heir to Tetra Pak, a multibillion-dollar global food packaging empire born of a milk carton, was arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs. Hans Rausing had apparently been driving erratically in south London.
When police searched the couple’s five-story mansion in the tony Chelsea district of London, they discovered the body of Eva Rausing, 48. It was not clear how long she had been dead.
The Daily Mail tabloid and other British newspapers said Wednesday that the body may have been in a bedroom for several days. Newspapers published what they said were recent photographs of the couple looking ‘‘drawn and disheveled.’’ An initial post-mortem examination Tuesday failed to establish a formal cause for the death.
Police officers were photographed Wednesday lugging boxes of forensic equipment through the porticoed entrance to the Rausings’ stuccoed home, while another officer stood guard.
“Officers from the Homicide and Serious Crime command are investigating, and the death continues to be treated at this time as unexplained,’’ a police statement said.
Hans and Eva Rausing met while they were in rehab 25 years ago and came to support many causes, including some associated with addiction. The BBC reported that Eva Rausing, the daughter of a wealthy US soft drinks executive, was connected to the international drug abuse prevention charity Mentor and that the couple financially supported the group Action on Addiction.
Four years ago, they gained notoriety when Eva Rausing was caught with crack cocaine and heroin in her purse as she entered the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square to attend a reception.
So the rehab never took, huh?
At that time, according to court records quoted by The Press Association news agency, a police search of their home unearthed further stashes of crack cocaine, heroin, and cocaine.
The prosecution was later dropped and the Rausings were released with conditional cautions from police....
You see, there is a set of rules for serfs and slaves like me and you, readers, then there is the set of rules for those above us.
The elder Hans Rausing built up the Tetra Pak empire from a company his own father founded in 1944, manufacturing laminated cardboard cartons that enabled milk to be kept fresh without refrigeration, and then creating other lightweight, inexpensive packaging used across scores of nations, like drink boxes.
A Forbes Magazine profile in March 2012 listed Hans Rausing Sr. as No. 88 on a list of the world’s billionaires, with a fortune of some $10 billion....
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Update: Billionaire Eva Rausing’s husband charged with preventing her burial
