Ex-Attorney General Mark Pettingill has quit a top job at Clarien Bank less than three months after joining.

Mr Pettingill — who left Cabinet to take up the post at the end of May — resigned his post at chief legal officer on Thursday.

A spokesman for Clarien said: “Clarien Bank Limited advised today that effective 7 August, Mark Pettingill has opted to pursue alternative professional opportunities ?outside of the organisation.

“We thank him for the contributions he has made in his tenure with us to date and wish him well in his future endeavours.”

Mr Pettingill did not return calls from The Royal Gazette yesterday.

Mr Pettingill resigned as Attorney General after accepting the job with Clarien.

He at first said he would continue as Attorney General until the post reverted from a political appointment, made from inside the ranks of Government, to an non-political post.

But he tendered his resignation last May, shortly before taking up the private sector job.

Mr Pettingill, with ex-Premier Craig Cannonier and Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell and Stephen DeCosta, a business associate of Mr Cannonier’s, became embroiled in a row over a trip on a private jet to visit US tycoon Nathan Landow to discuss possible investment in Bermuda in March last year.

Mr Cannonier was forced to resign after details of the trip became public, along with a donation to an OBA-linked general election campaign fund amounting to $350,000 by Mr Landau and a group of other US businessmen, although he denied any wrongdoing.

Mr Pettingill said that his decision to stand down as AG had nothing to do with the affair dubbed “Jetgate” and said there had been nothing wrong with the trip and that it had not breached any Ministerial code of conduct rules.

Clarien, based in Reid Street, Hamilton, took over the former Capital G Bank in April.

Mr Pettingill gave up his post at Charter Chambers when he was appointed Attorney General in the first OBA Cabinet because the AG is not allowed to practice law while in office.

He earlier worked for legal firm Wakefield Quin as a defence lawyer and in the Attorney General’s Chambers as a Crown counsel.