Historic Networks of Freemasonry
Freemason indicted over murder of 'God's banker'
Independent, The (London), Jul 20, 2005 by John Phillips in Rome
The Independent - UK - Jul 20/05 - Magistrates investigating the death of the Italian banker Roberto Calvi under Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982 are focusing on Licio
Gelli, the former 'grand master' of the illegal P2 Masonic lodge that plotted against Italian democracy in the 1970s.
Mr Gelli denies he was involved but has acknowledged that the financier, known as 'God's banker' because of his links with the Vatican, was murdered. He said the killing was commissioned in Poland.
This is thought to be a reference to Calvi's alleged involvement in financing the Solidarity trade union movement at the request of the late Pope John Paul II, according to the sources quoted by La Repubblica newspaper.
Two Roman investigating magistrates, Judge Maria Monteleone and Judge Luca
Tescaroli, sent Mr Gelli a judicial letter informing him that he is formally under investigation on charges of ordering the murder along with four other people " Flavio
Carboni, a shadowy businessman with secret service contacts, his girlfriend Manuela
Kleinsing, the Cosa Nostra boss Giuseppe Calo and an entrepreneur, Ernesto
Dioatallevi. The four other suspects were indicted on murder charges in April and are to stand trial in October.
Investigators believe that Calvi was murdered as 'punishment' for having used his position as head of the Banco
Ambrosiano, then Italy's largest private bank, to seize large sums of money belonging to the Sicilian Mafia and to Mr
Gelli.
The indictment also says that the five ordered Calvi's murder to prevent the banker 'from using blackmail power against his political and institutional sponsors from the world of Masonry, belonging to the P2 lodge, or to the Institute for Religious Works [the Vatican Bank] with whom he had managed investments and financing with conspicuous sums of money, some of it coming from Cosa Nostra and public agencies'.
Nearly 1,000 prominent public figures including businessmen such as the current Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi, senior army and police officers, politicians and civil servants belonged to Mr Gelli's Propaganda Due (P2) clandestine Masonic lodge, dissolved in 1981 for plotting to establish an authoritarian regime.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050720/ai_n14777541
Over $1.7 million in gold found with financier Licio Gelli - P2 Masonic Lodge
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, Sep 14, 1998
MJS - Sep 14/1998 - Italian financier and former fugitive Licio (Lucio) Gelli had something of a golden touch when it came to geraniums and begonias: 150 ingots' worth, as it turned out.
Police found the gold bars, valued at more than $1.76 million, buried in huge terra-cotta pots brimming with flowers that decorate the terrace of Gelli's mansion in Tuscany, Italian newspapers reported Sunday.
The reports said at least some of the gold might have come from a cache the Italian fascists stole from Yugoslavia during World War II.
The 79-year-old Gelli is one of Italy's more colorful characters. He headed the once-powerful and secretive P2 Masonic Lodge and was a key player in the fraudulent collapse of Italy's largest private bank.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_19980914/ai_n10441911
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