Four suspects in the case, including an alleged mafioso, have
been notified of the conclusions but have not been indicted, the
ANSA news agency reported. Their lawyers have 20 days to respond, it
said.
RAI state television said prosecutors believe the Mafia killed
Calvi because he lost their money and knew too much about their
operations. Legal officials were unavailable Wednesday to confirm
the reports.
Calvi's body was found hanging under a London bridge in 1982
within days of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, of which he was
president and in which the Vatican's bank held a significant stake.
Last year, a panel of forensic experts also concluded that Calvi
was killed. A Rome tribunal appointed the experts to study new
evidence, including re-examining Calvi's body, which was exhumed in
1998.
The forensic experts could not find any injuries to Calvi's neck
normally associated with death by hanging, news reports said.
Calvi's family has contended he was slain. A London coroner's
jury could not decide if his death was a suicide or a homicide.
Calvi was dubbed "God's Banker" because of his ties with the
Vatican's bank and its former top official, Archbishop Paul C.
Marcinkus.
After the Banco Ambrosiano collapsed following the disappearance
of $1.3 billion, the Vatican's bank agreed to pay $250 million to
the Italian bank's creditors but denied any wrongdoing. Marcinkus
also denied wrongdoing.
Rome prosecutors cited four suspects in Calvi's death: alleged
mafioso Giuseppe Calo, businessman Flavio Carboni, and Ernesto
Diotallevi and Manuela Kleinszig, the AGI news agency said. More
suspects could be named, it said.
Prosecutors say Calo ordered Calvi's killing, and the other
suspects lured Calvi to his death in London, AGI said.
Carboni's lawyer, Renato Borzone, denounced Wednesday's
conclusions, saying there was no proof Calvi was killed and
prosecutors were relying on phony testimony by Mafia turncoats to
make their case.
"Today, a new battle begins to find the truth on Calvi's death,"
he said.
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