Calvi case adjourned: new evidence from UK police

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From The International News:

ROME: A preliminary hearing into the 1982 murder of "God’s banker" Roberto Calvi began on Tuesday in Rome but was immediately adjourned until April 22 to give the court time to examine new documents presented by the prosecution.

Four people are suspected in the murder, including Sicilian Mafia boss, Pippo Calo, who has been in prison since 1985. Judge Orlando Villone is expected to decide next month whether there is sufficient evidence against the four suspects to proceed to a trial. Prosecutors believe Calo ordered Calvi’s murder for mishandling Mafia accounts placed with his Banco Ambrosiano, at the time Italy’s largest privately owned bank.

They believe the other suspects, businessman Ernesto Diotallevi, Flavio Carboni and an Austrian woman, his then girlfriend Manuela Kleinszig, colluded in the murder. The 62-year-old banker disappeared during a massive investigation into its collapse. Known as "God’s banker" because of his close links to the Vatican bank - the Institute for the Works of Religion - he was found hanging under London’s Blackfriars Bridge in June 1982.

From:http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/mar2004-daily/17-03-2004/world/w13.htm

This follows on yesterday's reports in the UK's Guardian newspaper that:

"Eleven boxes and seven folders stuffed with new evidence were submitted to the court shortly before the start of the trial. A source close to the prosecution said it showed Mr Calvi's involvement in the laundering of treasury bonds stolen by the Mafia in Turin in 1982. The bonds had been passed to Banco Ambrosiano's chairman by Mr Carboni. The source added that Silvano Vittor, a Trieste-based smuggler who helped organise Mr Calvi's flight to London in the days leading up to Banco Ambrosiano's collapse, had admitted lying to investigators in the past."

and

"Yesterday's opening session heard testimony from forensic specialists who have been looking for DNA samples on a rubber finger-protector that was found in Mr Carboni's luggage in 1982. Prosecutors believe the sheath was used by Mr Calvi to protect a wound on his index finger and commissioned the scientists to attempt to match it with DNA samples from his body."

as posted: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=427421

Detective Superintendent Trevor Smith of the City of London police, who is in overall charge of the Calvi case in the UK, is also believed to have been given British journalists' note books and professional records going back to the 1980s which include UK media press cuttings (currently not archived in online storage facilities) that show that in 1986 several UK newspapers reported on Calvi's very covert, personal life. Among those press cuttings were reports from Dubai, UAE that a series of bank account records showed Calvi making 'maintenance and subsistence payments' in the 1960s to the mother of one 'Osama bin Laden' and details of blood tests made in an Egyptian hospital in 1962 that were presented in a paternity lawsuit as evidence supporting an application for 'educational funds'.

Calvi fathered Osama? Now that would be a BFEE embarassment....



Edit:
Addendum:
Police seize Calvi scaffolding
By James Moore (Filed: 15/10/2003)


Police yesterday seized the scaffolding from which Italian banker Roberto Calvi was found hanging 21 years ago.It is the first significant development since the City of London force reopened its investigation last month into the death of Mr Calvi, nicknamed 'God's banker' because of his close links to the Vatican.Mr Calvi's body was discovered hanging from the scaffolding at Blackfriars Bridge in central London. He had disappeared while in Italy during an investigation into Banco Ambrosiano, which subsequently collapsed with huge debts. Banco Ambrosiano was once Italy's biggest privately owned bank.The scaffolding was recovered from a storage company in Newbury, Berkshire. Investigators found it at a warehouse after executing a search warrant yesterday. The poles will now be held for examination at a forensic laboratory.It is understood that the scaffolding has only been used twice since Mr Calvi's body was found. It was reconstructed for the initial inquest into his death, which recorded a verdict of suicide, and later for an Italian television documentary.

The scaffolding, however, is understood to be in poor repair. Forensic experts will attempt to take DNA samples from it but the chances of success are thought to be slight.City of London police have made it clear that their reopened investigation is being treated as a murder inquiry. It follows a review sparked by events in Italy where investigators have identified four suspects in connection with their own probe into Mr Calvi's death.A City of London Police spokesman said: "This is a significant development but the examination of the scaffolding will take some time. We are also pursuing other lines of forensic investigation."Mr Calvi's son Carlo believes his father's death was linked to a conspiracy involving organised crime.

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fmoney%2F2003%2F10%2F15%2Fcncalvi15.xml


And:

"Calvi laundered $12 million to Solidarity":

As God's Banker, Calvi was instrumental in funneling $12 million away from the Vatican Bank into the Solidarity Trade Union in Poland, the Pope's native country. This move is believed to have been significant in breaking the Soviet grip on Poland. In addition, Calvi diverted funds into corporations in countries in which the Catholic Church had political interests. When Banco Ambrosiano went bankrupt and Calvi was in similar trouble, he asked the Vatican for help. To make sure he was taken seriously, he threatened to reveal the links between the Vatican, the Mafia, and the Solidarity Trade Union.

When he disappeared, only days later, his briefcase containing sensitive documents pertaining to these deals also vanished. The moment this briefcase surfaced, the Vatican purchased it on the open market for over $10 million. Some believe that Roberto Calvi was killed so he wouldn't talk about the Vatican's darker side. Supporters of this theory also accept as true that Gelli and his pseudo-masonic P2, in their anti-Communist rationale, orchestrated Calvi's death. Mafia vendetta? Political conspiracy? Only time will tell.

From:http://www.askmen.com/toys/special_feature_60/67c_special_feature.html

And:
Fro good historical background:

American Atheists link, citing the Nazi/Franco fascist connection, Peron, Falkland Islands, etc:

http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/vat13.htm

[CaptainClark23]

1. Calvi as OBL's Father...

Alright, thats it...this whole damn world has just gotten too surreal for me.

Let the Illuminati have it.

Too fucking weird.

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2. Here's some more woes for the P2 Lodge:

From Press World dot com:

"Washington, DC: December 22, 2003 – The sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church in 2003 will be viewed as a minor disturbance compared to the looming financial and legal crisis about to break upon the Catholic Church in 2004 according to California attorneys Tom Easton and Jonathan Levy. A trend which has started with a $70 million settlement in the Boston Archdiocese for sexual abuse victims will accelerate in 2004 according to the attorneys who represent Holocaust survivors suing the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order for post Second World War money laundering of the proceeds of concentration camps and Nazi looting.

The Vatican faces a tough year in 2004 with continuing class action lawsuits filed by sexual abuse victims and ongoing revelations of Church sanctioned cover-ups.But according to Levy these actions are dwarfed by the little-known $750 million dollar racketeering lawsuit pending in a Mississippi court by five states seeking the return of hundreds of millions of dollars stolen by the criminal mastermind Martin Frankel with the help of the Vatican Bank and three top Vatican Cardinals including the Vatican Secretary of State and two former Papal Nuncios to the United States. “The Vatican has done a great job of hushing the case up since at least two of the Cardinals who conspired with Frankel to steal tens of billions of dollars from the US insurance industry are mentioned as future candidates for Pope.”

Added to the Vatican Bank’s misery is the murder case of Vatican financier Roberto Calvi over two decades ago which resurfaced earlier this year in Britain and Italy with new findings and arrests thanks to the stubborn persistence of Carlo Calvi, the murdered banker’s son. The Calvi assassination triggered a $250 million pay out by the Vatican in the 1980’s, new revelations of Vatican connected misdeeds promise to be equally punishing.

Finally, the Vatican faces a legal landmine that has been quietly wending its way through the federal court system since 1999. In November 1999, Ukrainian Holocaust survivors later joined by Serb and Jewish plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against the Vatican Bank, a Croatian right-wing political organization and the Franciscan Order, alleging complicity in the laundering of Nazi World War II loot including the proceeds of genocide from several Croatian run concentration camps where upwards of 500,000 Serbs, Roma and Jews were liquidated between 1941 and 1945.A Federal District Court dismissed the lawsuit earlier this year on grounds of political question ruling the claim was a matter for the executive not judicial branch of government. The case is being appealed to the San Francisco based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals known for its controversial decisions. The appeal’s outcome is eagerly anticipated; a pending Holocaust case against Austria has been stayed by the Ninth Circuit court pending the resolution of the Vatican Bank appeal. Meanwhile, Easton and Levy consider their appeal brief a “Christmas card” for the Vatican."

From:http://legal-law.press-world.com/v/58855.html

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3. Who are the two men being considered, if you know?

“The Vatican has done a great job of hushing the case up since at least two of the Cardinals who conspired with Frankel to steal tens of billions of dollars from the US insurance industry are mentioned as future candidates for Pope.”

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4. Cardinal Law has often been cited: he's the one who had to

resign from the Boston diocese I believe after the sex absue scandal cover up. A personal friend of Senator Ted Kennedy.

I expect Elliot Spitzer might know a thing or 2 about this!