GENEVA — Marc Rich, the trader known as the "King of Commodities" whose controversial 2001 pardon by President Bill Clinton just hours before he left office unleashed a political firestorm of criticism in 2001, died on Wednesday. He was 78. Rich died in Switzerland, where he lived, according to his Israel-based spokesman Avner Azulay. He did not give further details, but said Rich would be buried in Israel on Thursday. Rich fled from the US to Switzerland in 1983 after he was indicted by a US federal grand jury on more than 50 counts of fraud, racketeering, trading with Iran during the US embassy hostage crisis and evading more than US$48m in income taxes — crimes that could have earned him...
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