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Thursday, May 05, 2005

The Ritual Murder of God's Banker

Roberto Calvi
http://www.ecomancina.com/
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The Ritual Murder of God's Banker
by ape
Cinquo de Mayo, '05

Twenty-three years ago, Italian financier-extraordinaire Roberto Calvi disappeared. Calvi was the Vatican's main money man, thus known as "God's Banker." That a man of Calvi's prominence simply evaporated created a storm of media interest, both in Italy and beyond. But the buzz created by his Rapture-like vanishing was nothing next to the astonishing circumstance of his discovery. Calvi was located, hanging by the neck, his pockets filled alternately with cash and bricks, beneath London's Blackfriar's Bridge. Last week, Italian authorities made four arrests of suspects in the Roberto Calvi murder.

Blackfriar's Bridge - London

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/

june/19/newsid_3092000/3092625.stm

In 1983, the Financial Times' correspondent in Italy, Rupert Cornwell wrote "God's Banker: An Account of the Life & Death of Roberto Calvi." It's an account of power, religion, greed and perversion; stories that ring strangely familiar in today's corpo/political milieu. - {ape}