Wells Fargo’s chief risk officer takes leave

Wells Fargo & Co.’s top risk manager in the division where bank employees falsified more than 2 million customer accounts has taken a leave of absence and was replaced in that role. Claudia Russ Anderson, who began a six-month leave Monday, was succeeded in August by Vic Albrecht, who held a similar job in the wealth-management division, Richele Messick, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based company, said in a phone interview. Anderson’s leave was announced to staff in June, said Messick, who didn’t elaborate when asked whether it was tied to a U.S. investigation into the bogus accounts. Anderson didn’t immediately reply to phone and email messages seeking comment.