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American financier cleared in London jogger bus push

London police cleared an American investment banker of charges he shoved a woman into the path of a bus on an oncoming bus.

Eric Bellquist, 41, has been ruled out as a suspect, The Sun of London reported on Saturday.

Bellquist was detained on the basis of video showing a jogger shoving a 33-year-old woman into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge in southwest London on May 5.

Bellquist maintained all along that he was out of the country at the time. A statement from his lawyer said Bellquist “categorically denies being the individual concerned and has irrefutable proof that he was in the United States at the time of the incident.

Bellquist works for Hutton Collins Partners, which owns restaurant chains, and sits on the chains’ boards as a non-executive director. He previously worked for Lehman Brothers.