Editing Roberto Calvi (section)

==Prosecution of Giuseppe Calò and Licio Gelli==

In July 1991, [[Sicilian Mafia]] ''[[pentito]]'' [[Francesco Marino Mannoia]] claimed that Roberto Calvi became the victim of a [[contract killing]] because he had lost money belonging to senior Mafia bosses 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=12 March 2007 }}, The Scotsman, 15 February 2006</ref><ref name=rep131002>{{in lang|it}} [http://www.repubblica.it/online/politica/calvi/giuffre/giuffre.html Anche Antonino Giuffré nell'inchiesta Calvi], La Repubblica, 13 October 2002</ref> 

According to Mannoia, the killer was [[Francesco Di Carlo]], a ''mafioso'' living in London at the time, on the orders of [[Giuseppe Calò]] and [[Propaganda Due]] [[Worshipful Master]] [[Licio Gelli]]. Di Carlo also became a cooperating witness in June 1996 and denied that he was the killer, but he admitted that Calò had approached him to commit the murder.<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, 12 May 2012</ref>

According to Di Carlo, the killers were Vaccari and [[Vincenzo Casillo]], who belonged to the [[Camorra]] from [[Naples]] and both of whom were later murdered.<ref name="dicarlo"/> In 1997, Italian prosecutors in Rome implicated Calò in Calvi's murder, along with [[Flavio Carboni]], an allegedly mobbed up [[Sardinia]]n businessman with wide-ranging interests. Di Carlo and [[Ernesto Diotallevi]], a member of the [[Banda della Magliana]], were also alleged to be involved in the killing.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} In July 2003, Italian prosecutors concluded that the Sicilian Mafia acted in its own interests and to ensure that Calvi could not blackmail them.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,,1005411,00.html Calvi was murdered by the mafia, Italian experts rule], The Guardian, 25 July 2003</ref>

Gelli was the [[Masonic lodge officers#Worshipful Master|master]] of the P2 lodge, and he received a notification on 19 July 2005 informing him that he was formally under investigation on charges of ordering Calvi's [[contract killing]], along with Calò, Diotallevi, [[Flavio Carboni]], and Carboni's Austrian girlfriend [[Manuela Kleinszig]]. The other four suspects had been [[indictment|indicted]] on murder charges in April. According to the indictment, the five ordered the murder to prevent Calvi "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".<ref name = ind200705/>

Gelli was accused of demanding Calvi's death as punishment for [[embezzlement|embezzling]] money from Banco Ambrosiano that belonged both to Gelli and to senior figures in the Mafia. The Mafia allegedly wanted to prevent Calvi from revealing that the Banco Ambrosiano had been used for [[money laundering]]. Gelli denied involvement but acknowledged that the financier was murdered. In his statement before the court, he said that the killing was commissioned in the [[People's Republic of Poland]]. This is thought to be a reference to Calvi's alleged involvement in financing the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] trade union movement at the request of Pope John Paul II, allegedly on behalf of the Vatican.<ref name=ind200705>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050722000212/http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article300322.ece Mason indicted over murder of 'God's banker'], [[The Independent]], 20 July 2005</ref> However, Gelli's name was not in the final indictment at the trial which started in October 2005.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXiJBAAAQBAJ&q=Gelli%2C+final+indictment+2005&pg=PT32|title=The Murder Stories|last=Laurence|first=Kristen|publisher=Nischal Hegde|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>