Word: calvi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...What, if any, was the extent of church officials' knowledge of P2? Lodge Grand Master Licio Gelli, who has gone into hiding, was a business associate of Calvi's. Sindona claims that Gelli had long championed the practice of funding opponents of Communism in order to help the cause of Catholicism, and that Calvi was the paymaster for Gelli's activities...
...still insists that he was framed in the Franklin affair by powerful Italian state banking interests who would not produce documents that would clear him, he readily admits to being deeply involved in the events that led to the downfall of Banco Ambrosiano and its late president, Roberto Calvi. In a mild, authoritative voice that occasionally erupted into impassioned Italian, Sindona spoke at length with TIME Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, sometimes disputing versions of the story that have emerged thus far and offering revealing glimpses of its protagonists. Some of the statements of Sindona, a convicted felon, are at odds with...
Sindona contends that he first met Calvi, then a junior executive with Banco Ambrosiano, around 1967. The two agreed that Calvi would act as inside man in a plan to gain eventual control over the bank and make it international...