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	Roberto Calvi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roberto Calvi (April 13, 1920 - June 17, 1982) was an Italian banker dubbed by the press as "God's Banker", due to his close association with the Vatican.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roberto_Calvi (1224 words)

	The case of God's Banker: Roberto Calvi the trial begins
		Calvi, in London under a false name and on a bogus passport, was perhaps looking for a way out and a new life, a life where he would be liberated from the consequences of his appalling mistakes.
		Roberto Calvi was 62 when he died, overweight, and a chronic sufferer from vertigo.
		They had their Calvi stand-in wear the same kind of loafers the banker was wearing when he died, then manoeuvre his way on to the scaffolding by the various possible routes: after which the shoes were soaked in water for the same length of time as Calvi's.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /calvitrialbegins_belfast.html (2001 words)

	Roberto Calvi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Calvi was still alive — but probably unconscious — when a noose was placed around his neck and the orange rope tied to a ring on scaffolding under the bridge.
		Calvi’s son Carlo, who has hired private investigators at his own expense to bolster the judicial inquiries, believes that they have yet to seek out the “untouchables” who benefited from his father’s death.
		Calvi had been sacked as chairman on June 17, 1982 after failing to account for debts to shell companies in Latin America controlled by the Vatican bank.
	clublet.com /why?RobertoCalvi (1093 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 19 \| 1982: 'God's banker' found hanged
		Known as God's banker for his links with the Vatican, 62-year-old Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano in Milan and a central figure in a complex web of international fraud and intrigue.
		The Vatican is directly linked to Mr Calvi by Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the Pope's bodyguard, a governor of the Vatican and head of the Vatican bank which has a shareholding in Ambrosiano.
		It was later revealed that Roberto Calvi was found with five bricks in his pockets and had in his possession about $14,000 in three different currencies.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/19/newsid_3092000/3092625.stm (589 words)

	Marcinkus: silent witness to Calvi mystery : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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)

	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)

	Question of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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)

	Calvi Crusade: ThePost.ie
		Calvi is believed to have brought explosive secrets to the grave, in one of the most intriguing unsolved crime cases and financial scandals of modern times.
		Calvi points to the investigators' findings that the Mafia's aim in murdering his father was not only to punish him for his misuse of funds, but also to prevent potential attempts to flmail politicians, P2 and the Institute for Religious Works - better known as theVatican bank.
		Calvi contends that the motive for his father's murder was to stop him revealing secrets that would shock the world.
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2004/04/04/story772484329.asp (1711 words)

	Why was 'God's banker' killed? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Roberto Calvi, an Italian financier with ties both to the Vatican — hence his nickname — and the Mafia, in 1982 begged John Paul II to step in and save his bank from collapse, The Times of London reports.
		Calvi reportedly reminded John Paul that he had funded political and religious groups supported by the Vatican in both eastern and western Europe and had set up banks in Latin America to help combat the spread of communism.
		Calvi also had warnings for the pontiff himself — that Vatican fiscal shenanigans were being kept from him and that Calvi's enemies within the church hierarchy were also conspiring against John Paul.
	www.red-ice.net /specialreports/2005/10oct/vaticanbanker.html (1023 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 (750 words)

	Telegraph \| Money
		In 1982 Roberto Calvi was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge, his pockets stuffed with bricks, and with $15,000 in cash in his wallet - quite enough, wags said at the time, to weigh him down sufficiently even without the bricks.
		The fact that Calvi was a secret member of P2, and that Blackfriars translates into Italian as "frati neri" (fl brothers), fuelled the imagination of the conspiracy theorists.
		A recent forensic report, completed after exhuming Calvi's body, concludes that he was probably strangled in the rubbish dump of a builder's yard near Blackfriars Bridge, with his killers taking the body by boat to scaffolding beneath the bridge.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/10/04/cccalvi04.xml (1876 words)

	Four charged over Calvi killing : Italy imc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Calvi was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano Four people have been indicted for the 1982 murder of Italian banker Roberto Calvi, Italian media say.
		Calvi, known as God's banker because of his close ties to the Vatican, was found hanging under a bridge in London.
		Roberto Calvi was found hanging under London's Blackfriars Bridge with bricks in his pockets and $15,000 on him.
	italy.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=775746 (262 words)

	THE SUNDAY TIMES su Calvi
		A NEW investigation into the death of Roberto Calvi, the Italian banker found suspended from a rope under Blackfriars Bridge in London more than 18 years ago, is expected to conclude that he was murdered.
		It is based on an autopsy performed after Calvi's body was exhumed from a cemetery at Drezzo, northern Italy, and tests on DNA and other material taken from the crime scene.
		In the fourth postmortem on the body, tissue was taken from Calvi's fingertips to resolve doubts about whether he handled the bricks that were found in his pockets and whether his hands had touched the scaffolding.
	www.almanaccodeimisteri.info /SundayTimesCalvi.htm (652 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.
		Carlo Calvi, now a banker in Montreal, Canada, argues that his father died for failing to honour mounting debts to the Cosa Nostra, and because he knew too much about alleged links between the Mafia and the Vatican’s finances.
	www.rosslyntemplars.org.uk /calvi.htm (848 words)

	Four charged over Calvi killing - World - www.theage.com.au
		Calvi was dubbed "God's banker" because of his ties with the Vatican's bank and its former top official, the American Archbishop Paul C Marcinkus.
		Calvi's body was found within days of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, where he was president and in which the Vatican's bank held a significant stake.
		In December 2003, a 42-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, and of perjury.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Four-charged-over-Calvi-killing/2005/04/19/1113854173070.html (277 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| 'God's banker' case re-opened
		Calvi was found hanging from scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge in central London in June, 1982 with bricks in his pockets and $15,000 on his person.
		Calvi had worked his way up the corporate ladder to become director-general and president of the Banco Ambrosiano, which he transformed from a small regional bank into a major international player.
		In their report, prosecutors say they believe Calvi was murdered by the Sicilian Mafia and mainland Italian mobsters, the Camorra, as punishment for pocketing money they had asked him to launder.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3091635.stm (491 words)

	P2 Conspiracy/Roberto Calvi Murder Indepth - St. Peter's Squared, Freemasonry's attempt to penetrate the Vatican and ...
		Calvi's secretary "falls" to her death from 4th floor window of Banks International Headquarters and then the next day Calvi is found hanging from Black Friars bridge in London with a false passport and twelve pounds of bricks and rocks shoved in his pockets(i.e.
		Calvi ws attracted to Carboni, as he was to Pazienza, by his promised access to hidden and therefore real power.
		Calvi was by this stage scared not only for his own safety (his retinues of bullet-proof Alfa Romeos and bodyguards were costing his bank four milliion lire every day) but for that of his family as well.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /stpeters_squared.html (9849 words)

	"GOD'S BANKER" MURDER TRIAL BEGINS: COULD EXPOSE VATICAN FINANCIAL SCHEMES, RAISE QUESTIONS OVER DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY, ...
		Calvi was found hanging with his hands tied behind his back under Blackfriar's Bridge in London on June 18, 1982 Bricks and thousands in British Pound currency were stuffed in his pockets.
		For many researchers, the Calvi murder is at the center of a nexus of events spanning several decades, and underscores the secretive relationship the Vatican -- through the IOR and principals like Roberto Calvi and Paul Marcinkus -- has enjoyed with powerful financial interests, intelligence services, secret political cabals and foreign governments.
		Beginning in 1998, the Calvi affair was back in the news when the family of the late financier had his body exhumed.
	www.atheists.org /flash.line/calvi5.htm (2579 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'God's banker' murder trial opens in Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Calvi's body was found hanging from scaffolding beneath London's Blackfriars Bridge, his pockets stuffed with stones and cash, and police there initially ruled his death a suicide.
		They also allege that Calvi, president of the failing Banco Ambrosiano, was laundering money for the Mafia, and that Calo ordered his murder because crime bosses were angry at Calvi for appropriating Mafia money and were afraid the banker would talk.
		Calvi was found dead as Banco Ambrosiano collapsed following the disappearance of $1.3 billion in loans the bank had provided to dummy companies in Latin America.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-10-06-godsbankertrial_x.htm (670 words)

	New Criminologist (Print version): Mafia hitmen charged with the murder of Roberto Calvi, 'God's Banker' in 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Calvi was known as God's banker because of his close links to the Vatican.
		Calvi had been missing for nine days before his body was discovered by a passer-by hanging from scaffolding on a riverside walk under the Blackfriars Bridge in central London in June, 1982 with bricks in his pockets and $15,000 on his person.
		In their report, prosecutors say they believe Calvi was murdered by the Sicilian Mafia and mainland Italian mobsters, the Camorra, as punishment for pocketing money they had asked him to launder, and also to prevent him revealing explosive secrets about Italy's political and religious establishment.
	www.newcriminologist.co.uk /print.asp?id=1126175727 (618 words)

	RNW: The mysterious death of Roberto Calvi - trial opens in Rome
		On the evening of 18 June 1982, the lifeless body of Roberto Calvi - the director of Banco Ambrosiano, an Italian bank on the verge of bankruptcy and with strong and extensive connections to the Roman Catholic church - was found hanging under Blackfriar's Bridge across the River Thames in London.
		In the 1970s, Roberto Calvi was an ambitious banker who had excellent connections within the Vatican and a group known as P2, a secretive lodge of freemasons which formed a state within the state of Italy.
		One year before, Roberto Calvi was convicted on currency violation charges, but released on bail waiting appeal.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /currentaffairs/region/westerneurope/ita051006 (645 words)

	REPORT ON CALVI AUTOPSY RETURNS SPOTLIGHT TO VATICAN BANK SCANDAL
		Roberto Calvi, a leading Italian financier, was found suspended from Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982.
		Now, nearly four years later, comes word that Roberto Calvi did not load his clothing up with bricks and broken mortar and climb to the underside of Blackfriars Bridge to commit suicide, but was killed elsewhere to become a prop in a staged suicide.
		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 (2517 words)

	The Vatican, the dark side - - - voxnyc
		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.
		Roberto Calvi’s insists that the Vatican knows more than it is telling, and was involved in some fashion with the banker’s death.
	www.voxfux.com /features/vaticanmurder.html (8759 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When on the morning of 17 June 1982, the body of Roberto Calvi was found hanging beneath London’s Blackfriars bridge, it was to speed a process that prised open a series of events spanning four decades.
		The circumstances of Calvi’s death led knowledgeable observers to darkly whisper of a Masonic ritual slaying.
		Consequently, Roberto Calvi was thrown to the Wolves.
	www.deepblacklies.co.uk /operation_gladio_pr.htm (2432 words)

	ABC News: Five Tried for Italian Banker's '82 Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The body of Roberto Calvi was found hanging from scaffolding under London's Blackfriars Bridge on June 18, 1982, with rocks and cash stuffed into his suit.
		Calvi was a key figure in one of modern Italy's biggest banking scandals, which involved elements of the country's power brokers businessmen, politicians, Masonic groups and the Vatican hierarchy.
		Prosecutors have alleged that Calvi was murdered in a ruthless Mafia vendetta, while defense lawyers claim the financier committed suicide as Banco Ambrosiano collapsed in the fraud scandal.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1189902 (443 words)

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