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Italian authorities this week charged four people, one a Mafia boss, with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, a banker with ties to the Vatican. Calvi, chairman of Italy’s Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London shortly after the bank was forced into liquidation. Prosecutors said Calvi was murdered because he knew too much about how Mafia funds had been laundered through the Vatican Bank and Banco Ambrosiano. The four indicted are Pippo Calò, a Cosa Nostra boss currently in prison; Flavio Carboni, a Sardinian financier; Carboni’s Austrian girlfriend, Manuela Kleinszig; and Ernesto Diotavelli, a crime boss from Rome. Calvi’s death had been considered suicide until two years ago, when Italian prosecutors said they had evidence of murder.
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