Italy's MPS bank's David Rossi found dead in Siena

The communications director of troubled Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) has died in an apparent suicide.

David Rossi's body was found beneath an open window at the bank's 14th Century headquarters in Siena.

Mr Rossi was among several MPS employees whose homes and offices were searched by police last month - though no charges were brought against him.

MPS, which is the world's oldest surviving bank, is at the centre of fraud and corruption allegations.

Andrea Greco, a reporter for Italian newspaper La Repubblica who knew Mr Rossi, said: "He was a very serious person, under pressure over a judicial probe which had touched on him through a recent police search, even if he was not under investigation."