Roberto Calvi: Difference between revisions

In July 1991, the [[Mafia]] ''[[pentito]]'' [[Francesco Marino Mannoia]] claimed that Calvi had been killed because he had lost Mafia funds when Banco Ambrosiano collapsed.<ref>[http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=234872006 Mafia 'murdered banker over bungled deal'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312002313/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=234872006 |date=2007-03-12 }}, The Scotsman, February 15, 2006</ref><ref name=rep131002>{{it icon}} [http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/calvi/giuffre/giuffre.html Anche Antonino Giuffré nell'inchiesta Calvi], La Repubblica, October 13, 2002</ref> According to Mannoia, the killer was [[Francesco Di Carlo]], a ''mafioso'' living in London at the time, on the orders of [[crime boss|boss]] [[Giuseppe Calò]] and [[Licio Gelli]]. When Di Carlo became an informer in June 1996, he denied he was the killer, but admitted he had been approached by Calò to do the job. However, Di Carlo could not be reached in time. When he later called Calò, the latter said that everything had been taken care of.<ref name=obs120512>[https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/12/roberto-calvi-blackfriars-bridge-mafia Mafia boss breaks silence over Roberto Calvi killing], The Observer, May 12, 2012</ref> According to Di Carlo, the killers were Vaccari and [[Vincenzo Casillo]], who belonged to the [[Camorra]] from [[Naples]] and were later killed.<ref name="dicarlo"/> In 1997, [[Italy|Italian]] prosecutors in Rome implicated Calò in Calvi's murder, along with Flavio Carboni, a [[Sardinia]]n businessman with wide-ranging interests. Two other men, Di Carlo and Ernesto Diotallevi, were also alleged to be involved in the killing.