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  Roberto Calvi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Calvi was the chairman of the Banco Ambrosiano which collapsed in one of Italy's biggest modern political scandals, and his death in London in June 1982 has been the source of enduring controversy.
Calvi's death was the subject of two coroner's inquests in the United Kingdom.
The defendants are Giuseppe Calò, Flavio Carboni, Manuela Kleinszig, Ernesto Diotallevi, and Calvi's former driver and bodyguard Silvano Vittor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roberto_Calvi   (1206 words)

  
 Calvi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calvi is a small town and commune of the Haute-Corse (2B) département, in France.
It is located on the northwest coast of the island of Corsica, 95 km from Bastia and 24 km from L'Île-Rousse.
There is one legend that Christopher Columbus was from Calvi, which at the time was part of the Genoese empire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calvi   (167 words)

  
 Montreal Mirror - The Front Page : Conspiracy
Calvi, whose father Roberto was found hanging dead under Blackfriars Bridge in London 20 years ago, has spent countless hours since that horrendous event trying to prove that the death was a homicide.
Calvi believes his father was murdered for the same reasons that the Pope was targeted in an assassination attempt on May 13, 1981.
Calvi is now supporting San Francisco-based lawyer Jonathan Levy, who has been attempting to gain legal orders to force the Vatican to open its books and possibly reveal details of its lesser-known financial dealings with such disreputable groups as the Nazis and the Mafia.
www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2002/120502/news1.html   (536 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Magazine | An end to the mystery of God's Banker?
Calvi's death took place at a time when much of Italian politics and business was conducted through "smoke and mirrors", with nothing quite what it appeared.
Calvi's body was exhumed in 1998, providing clues which strengthened the case for murder.
Carlo Calvi believes his father, who had been living in Chelsea, was surprised by his attackers, strangled and taken a short distance by boat to the bridge, where he was hanged from scaffolding beneath it.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/3568409.stm   (1041 words)

  
 The Shady Deals of God's Banker
Calvi had been missing from Italy for one week when a mail-room clerk of the Daily Express, walking to his job on Fleet Street, saw a man suspended from a scaffold under the Blackfriars Bridge.
Calvi, under recent questioning by Italian magistrates, had already revealed some of his own P2 activities, and lately he had been threatening to strip the layers further.
Calvi's operations were, of course, criminal by definition since they involved the felonious transfer of capital out of the country, but the IOR is simply not in Italy.
www.theboot.it /calvi_affair.html   (4537 words)

  
 Guardian | Who killed Calvi?
Roberto Calvi, known as God's banker because of his close ties to the Vatican, was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge, central London, with a length of orange rope woven into a lover's knot around his neck.
Calvi's death, in June 1982, was the moment the Italian underworld went overground in London.
The scaffolding that Calvi was hung from, was assembled again, and a man of Calvis's height and weight climbed along it.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4813656-111093,00.html   (1184 words)

  
 Marcinkus: silent witness to Calvi mystery : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Calvi is said to have been introduced to the high echelons of the church by members of masonic P2, branded a "state within a state" by his Banco Ambrosiano mentor, Sicilian Michele Sindona.
Calvi shaved off his moustache and headed towards the Austrian border, some say to try to raise the cash to fill the "fl hole" of Mafia money he was given to launder.
MAY 1981: Roberto Calvi is jailed for four years but released pending an appeal for breaking Italian currency laws and smuggling untold millions out of the country.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2006/02/1724868.php   (1710 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Calvi was murdered by the mafia, Italian experts rule
The death of Calvi - originally deemed to be suicide - has confounded amateur detectives and inspired con spiracy theorists for a generation.
At least 10 people, apart from the four named, are known to have been implicated in the report, but their names have not been divulged even to the judges who must now decide whether to proceed with a trial.
Calvi was also involved with members of the P2, who helped secure him vital official assistance in return for bribes that laid him open to flmail.
www.guardian.co.uk /italy/story/0,12576,1005417,00.html   (729 words)

  
 Question of the Day
Carlo Calvi, Calvi's only son, was studying for his doctorate in economics at George Washington University in Washington D.C., when his father died,.
They suggested Calvi's body could have been transported to the scaffolding in a small boat, where the rope was tied to his neck, and, weighed down by bricks so he wouldn't float horizontally, he was put into the water.
Calvi's fl bag had not found in Calvi's locked room in the Chelsea Cloisters so presumably Calvi took it with him the night he died.
edwardjayepstein.com /question_calvi.htm   (2948 words)

  
 Guardian | Woman held as police hunt Calvi killers
Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, a banking empire he had created with close links to the Vatican, but which was on the verge of collapse with debts of £800m when he died.
Calvi was also claimed to have links with a clandestine Freemasons-style group known as P2.
In October officers began re-examining the scaffolding poles from which Calvi was found hanging, a pair of spectacles, and the £15,000 cash that was found in his pockets along with bricks.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4815800-103690,00.html   (507 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | New tests 'say Calvi was murdered'
Calvi's body was found hanging from scaffolding on Blackfriars Bridge in June 1982 and his family has always maintained his death was not suicide.
Calvi was a member of the secret right-wing P2 masonic lodge, and was also linked to the Sicilian mafia.
Calvi's son, Carlo, told BBC News Online the tests apparently showed there were no traces of paint, or other material such as zinc, from the scaffold on his father's shoes.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/1936830.stm   (490 words)

  
 Family finds vindication in their campaign after Italian Coroner rules Roberto Calvi's death was murder, not suicide
Calvi was found dangling from a noose beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, his pockets and waistband stuffed with bricks.
Calvi's son and widow, who live in Montreal, have doggedly tried to prove suspicions that Roberto Calvi was killed.
Calvi's exhumed body by an international panel for the Rome prosecutor's office have concluded the banker was the victim of murder, not suicide.
www.freemasonrywatch.org /calvi_family.html   (838 words)

  
 God's Banker - Roberto Calvi
WHEN the body of the missing Italian banker, Roberto Calvi, was found under Blackfriars Bridge in London, hanging by a cord around his neck, it seemed that the mystery of his disappearance had been solved.
Calvi, the former chairman of the disgraced Banco Ambrosiano, Italy’s largest bank, was up to his neck in financial scandal.
Their report also said that his hands had not been in contact with the seven bricks found in his pockets and the waistband of his trousers that he supposedly used to weight his body.
www.rosslyntemplars.org.uk /calvi.htm   (848 words)

  
 Player Bio: Mark Calvi :: Baseball
At FIU, Calvi's pitching staff finished among the Top 10 in earned run average five times and the Golden Panthers made seven NCAA appearances advancing to the Super Regionals against Southern Cal in 2001.
Calvi established himself as one of the top pitching coaches in the country at FIU producing eight All-Americans and 13 All-Conference recipients.
Calvi has also produced two pitchers that have led the nation in strikeouts and earned run average respectively.
uscsports.cstv.com /sports/m-basebl/mtt/calvi_mark00.html   (382 words)

  
 Calvi murder linked to missing $70m
When Calvi's corpse was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge, his coat pockets were packed with bricks but there were no traces of brick dust on his hands.
The breakthrough persuading police to reopen the Calvi case came last year, when a panel of forensic scientists commissioned by a Rome tribunal concluded that he was killed.
It is claimed that Calvi created a network of contactsin south America, with politicians, bankers, and traffickers who trusted his ability to launder money gained from the cocaine traffic of the Colombian mafia.
www.freemasonrywatch.org /calvi_70mil.html   (662 words)

  
 Corsica, Calvi, a stylish holiday rental for self-catering vacations close to the beach, restaurants
Casa Paradis, located in the heart of historic Calvi on the north-west coast of the island, offers quality accommodation for those who prefer to make their own choice, rather than follow the crowd.
Calvi, birthplace of Christopher Columbus, is situated on the southern tip of a crescent-shaped bay backed with snowcapped mountains.
Calvi has a chic waterfront and yacht marina lined with restaurants, cafes and bars, and charming cobbled streets and alleys boasting an array of boutiques and delicatessens.
www.corsicanholidays.com   (335 words)

  
 Travelling - France - Corsica Calvi
Seen from the water, CALVI is a beautiful spectacle, with its three immense bastions topped by a crest of ochre buildings, sharply defined against a hazy backdrop of mountains.
The French concentrated on developing Ajaccio and Bastia during the nineteenth century, and Calvi became primarily a military base, used as a point for smuggling arms to the mainland in World War II.
This vault of the XIXe century is at 6 km in the south-west of CALVI.
www.didierbeck.com /net/calvi.htm   (659 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Freemasonry
Calvi then altered his appearance, acquired false documents, and traveled through a number of European cities to cover his escape from Italy.
In December 2002, Mafia kingpin Antonio Giuffre became a police informant and mentioned that Calvi had been murdered, due to the fact that he wasn't doing a good job of laundering money for the mob as CEO of the largest bank in Italy.
The fact that the way Calvi was murdered is believed to be typical of the Sicilian Mafia confirms the police's suspicions.
www.askmen.com /toys/special_feature_60/67_special_feature.html   (537 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Four charged over Calvi killing
Calvi, known as God's banker because of his close ties to the Vatican, was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.
Calvi's family have always said that he did not kill himself.
Roberto Calvi was found hanging under London's Blackfriars Bridge with bricks in his pockets and $15,000 on him.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4457975.stm   (207 words)

  
 REPORT ON CALVI AUTOPSY RETURNS SPOTLIGHT TO VATICAN BANK SCANDAL
One theory investigators have operated on is that Calvi, who was intimately involved with money laundering and other suspect financial activities with the Vatican, may have been murdered for not repaying loans to organized crime, or was silenced for complicity and what he knew about the unravelling Ambrosiano-Vatican scandal.
The latest report notes that Calvi's neck bones did not show the kind of damage that would have been caused by suicide through hanging, and that his hands and fingernails were clean.
Calvi's death, and the revelation that it was the result of murder, may turn public attention toward a financial scandal that vanished from the media radar screen without being fully resolved.
www.atheists.org /flash.line/vat13.htm   (2506 words)

  
 Calvi: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Calvi is a small town and commune commune in France quick summary:
The commune (in french: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from medieval latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from latin...
There is one legend that Christopher Columbus[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] was from the Calvi, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/calvi.htm   (228 words)

  
 Calvi Marine
For more than 15 years, Calvi Marine based in the heart of Balagne (North-West of Corsica), is specialized in the rent, management and sale of sailing catamarans and trawlers catamarans (power-boats) of the range Fountaine Pajot.
Calvi Marine is the exclusive dealer of Fountaine Pajot in Corse-Méditerranée area.
Calvi Marine is also in charge of management, and after sale service for the owners of boats.
www.calvi-marine.com /index_en.php   (356 words)

  
 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Vatican Politics, the Calvi Murder and Beyond...
Calvi was only one of a cast of characters in that story that included organized crime interests, political groups, secret societies, drug dealers, major financial institutions, and perhaps most stunning of all, a little-known entity identified as the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, the official bank for the Vatican.
Calvi, who eventually rises, with the help of Marcinkus, Gelli and Michael Sindona, to be the head of the bank, begins diversifying and investing bank monies, and simultaneously seeks to acquire control of stock by establishing offshore dummy corporations.
Calvi was also moving capital outside of the country on such a scale that it violated Italy’s banking laws.
www.americanatheist.org /pope99/calvi.html   (8763 words)

  
 INDICTMENTS IN CALVI MURDER FOCUS LIGHT ON VATICAN BANK SCANDAL, FASCIST & MOB LINKS, GLOBAL AGENDA
Calvi had been on the run using a false passport and numerous aliases following the collapse of his Banco Ambrosiano, a financial institution that partnered and laundered money for the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), the Holy See's bank headed by Archbishop Paul Marcinkus.
Calvi's son, also named Roberto, told an Italian newspaper that while he believes organized crime members carried out the execution of his father, "someone else" was behind the murder.
Calvi was aware of much of the operation, and accumulated a series of documents and other material as "insurance." In 1988, some of the papers surfaced when police raided the headquarters of a drug gang.
www.atheists.org /flash.line/calvi4.htm   (1378 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Calvi and Teano
The city of Calvi is the ancient Cales or Calenum in the Campagna, not far from Capua.
Towards the end of the fifth century it was certainly a bishopric, since Valerius, Bishop of Calenum, was present at the Roman Council held by Pope Symmachus in 499.
In 1818 Calvi was united with the See of Teano, a small city of the same province and a former fief of the Gaetani.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03195a.htm   (215 words)

  
 Calvi Family Crest
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Calvi coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
We encourage you to study the Calvi genealogy to find out if you descend from someone who bore a particular family crest.
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/calvi-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224   (457 words)

  
 ROBERTO CALVI
Calvi was due to appear in an Italian court within days of his death to appeal against this conviction.
In 1981 when Calvi was first arrested and subsequently released it is true to say Calvi felt ‘lost’ and abandoned by all.
Calvi's fl bag had not been found in Calvi's locked room in the Chelsea Cloisters so presumably Calvi took it with him the night he died.
www.lospettro.it /ROBERTOCALVI.htm   (6818 words)

  
 Cheap Car Hire & Rental in Calvi France
Calvi is located on the gulf of Calvi, on the mediterranean Sea and protected by a fortified citadell built on a rocky promontory.
Because of its strategic location Calvi was involved in most of the events of the complicated history of Corsica.
Calvi is famous for its popular beachside resort with turquoise waters of the Golfe de Calvi backed by the soaring.
www.anycarhire.com /car-hire/calvi.htm   (251 words)

  
 CALVI - Online Information article about CALVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bay of Calvi, in a malarial region, and is the port in Corsica nearest to See also:
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Calvi was founded in the 13th century and in 1278 passed into the hands of the Genoese.
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