Word: calvi
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Although British authorities believe Calvi's death was a suicide, there is still lingering suspicion that he was murdered. Said a leading Vienna banker: "Too many people were relieved to have him out of the way. Anyway, you would have to credit the totally unathletic banker with acrobatic talents to believe that he hanged himself the way he was found...
Just one day before Calvi's body was discovered, his personal secretary jumped to her death from a fourth-floor window in the bank's headquarters in Milan. She left behind a note that said Calvi should be "twice cursed for the damage he caused to the bank and all its employees...
...investigators unraveled Calvi's tangled financial affairs, they kept running across the name of Archbishop Marcinkus. The Vatican Bank has long owned 1.58% of the Banco Ambrosiano, but now there is suspicion that it actually holds much more. In addition, Marcinkus until very recently had sat on the board of the bank's Nassau-based subsidiary, Banco Ambrosiano Overseas Ltd., which helped arrange the questionable overseas loans...
...same time that the letters were signed, Calvi secretly absolved the Vatican Bank from any responsibility in the transaction. The effect was to render the letters legally worthless. This has bewildered police investigators...
...weeks ago, three officials appointed by the Bank of Italy to take over Banco Ambrosiano's affairs after Calvi's death visited Marcinkus at his Vatican Bank headquarters. The archbishop told them that he had only done what Calvi had requested. He then showed the officials out the door, saying that he was not required to answer questions by Italian authorities, who have no jurisdiction over the bank because it is located in Vatican City...