Roger Hollis in 1956 and remaining in that post until his retirement in 1965. After Kim Philby's flight from Beirut to Moscow in 1963, rumours began to circulate that Hollis had alerted him to his impending arrest. Hollis was criticised for not alerting John Profumo, the War Secretary in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, that he might have become entangled with a Soviet spy ring through his friendship with Stephen Ward, and his affair with showgirl Christine Keeler, who was introduced by Ward to Profumo. Soviet Naval Attache Eugene Ivanov was also involved with Keeler at this time, in the early
Alessandro Profumo Sicurtà. Following RAS's acquisition of shares of the recently privatized Credito Italiano in 1994, he became "Deputy General Manager" of Credito Italiano and was responsible for strategy and controlling. In 1995 he was appointed to "Chief General Manager". On 29 April 1997 the UniCredit group was formed, of which Profumo became Chief Executive Officer. On 21 September 2010 he resigned from that position, following political disputes. In early 2012 Profumo was appointed CEO of Italian bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. In June 2012, Alessandro Profumo and other 19 people were remanded to trial for a tax swindle. The