Word: ambrosiano
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...liberating letter," written by Calvi to the I.O.R. five days before the letters of patronage were issued. The liberating letter in effect negates the letters of patronage and relieves the Vatican bank of any responsibility for the companies in question. Yet this letter was never made known to the Ambrosiano Latin American banks that lent money to Calvi's shell firms. The liberating letter thus gives the arrangement between Calvi and the I.O.R. the appearance of a conspiracy to withhold essential information from the lending banks. The various letters suggest that Marcinkus allowed the Vatican's name...
...letters of patronage seemed to help Calvi, at least temporarily. But in the end even this ploy failed. When Calvi asked the I.O.R. to renew the letters, which expired in June 1982, Marcinkus turned him down. Another setback soon followed. After the Bank of Italy demanded that Ambrosiano account for its huge foreign lending, the bank's directors overruled Calvi and agreed to cooperate...
...fled Italy with a false passport, flying first to Austria, then to England. There, according to the two confidants who were with him, a traveling companion and a longtime business partner, he remained in seclusion in a rented apartment in London's Chelsea section. On June 17, Banco Ambrosiano's board of directors voted to strip Calvi of his powers, and the Bank of Italy appointed a commission to run Ambrosiano. That same day, Graziella Corrocher, 55, Calvi's longtime secretary-who, says Sindona, also kept the books for P2-plunged to her death from the fourth...
...wake of Calvi's death, a number of his associates reportedly fled Italy for South America and took large sums of money with them. Flavio Carboni, the business partner who had met with Calvi in London, was arrested in Switzerland. An Ambrosiano attorney says "many millions of dollars" were transferred to Carboni's Swiss accounts by Calvi some months before the trip to London...
...circumstances of Calvi's demise are only one of the unsolved mysteries in the Ambrosiano scandal. Among the others...