by emad » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:54 pm
Mason indicted over murder of 'God's banker' <br>By John Phillips in Rome <br>Published: 20 July 2005 <br><br>Magistrates investigating the death of the Italian banker Roberto Calvi under Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982 are focusing on Licio Gelli, the former "grand master" of the illegal P2 Masonic lodge that plotted against Italian democracy in the 1970s. <br><br>Mr Gelli denies he was involved but has acknowledged that the financier, known as "God's banker" because of his links with the Vatican, was murdered. He said the killing was commissioned in Poland.<br><br>This is thought to be a reference to Calvi's alleged involvement in financing the Solidarity trade union movement at the request of the late Pope John Paul II, according to the sources quoted by La Repubblica newspaper.<br><br>Two Roman investigating magistrates, Judge Maria Monteleone and Judge Luca Tescaroli, sent Mr Gelli a judicial letter informing him that he is formally under investigation on charges of ordering the murder along with four other people - Flavio Carboni, a shadowy businessman with secret service contacts, his girlfriend Manuela Kleinsing, the Cosa Nostra boss Giuseppe Calo and an entrepreneur, Ernesto Dioatallevi. The four other suspects were indicted on murder charges in April and are to stand trial in October.<br><br>Investigators believe that Calvi was murdered as "punishment" for having used his position as head of the Banco Ambrosiano, then Italy's largest private bank, to seize large sums of money belonging to the Sicilian Mafia and to Mr Gelli.<br><br>The indictment also says that the five ordered Calvi's murder to prevent the banker "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".<br><br>Nearly 1,000 prominent public figures including businessmen such as the current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, senior army and police officers, politicians and civil servants belonged to Mr Gelli's Propaganda Due (P2) clandestine Masonic lodge, dissolved in 1981 for plotting to establish an authoritarian regime.<br><br>When interrogated by magistrates in the presence of his lawyer on 4 July, Mr Gelli strongly denied having ordered the murder of Calvi, the sources said.<br><br>The former grand master said he had known Calvi since 1975 when he was introduced to him by Umberto Ortolani, another leading P2 member, but that he had few dealings with the Banco Ambrosiano, the collapse of which in 1982 sent Calvi fleeing to London.<br><br>The only dealing he had was in 1981 when he loaned $10m to the bank's Nassau subsidiary in the Bahamas, which was repaid to him one month later, he said.<br><br>"Calvi's death was made to look like suicide," he told the magistrates. Mr Gelli said the murder was related to Calvi's dealings with the Vatican Bank, which has always denied any moral responsibility in the Ambrosiano affair. "One evening I was at dinner with Calvi. He was angry, black in the face. He told me that the next day he had to go and see 'the most Holy one' in the Vatican to get $80m that he had to pay for bills relating to Poland and that if he did not get the money everything would blow up," Mr Gelli was quoted as saying in La Repubblica.<br><br>"This happened between 1979 and 1980, and that is why I said that to find Calvi's assassins one ought to have investigated in Poland," Mr Gelli was quoted as telling the magistrates. <br><br>Magistrates investigating the death of the Italian banker Roberto Calvi under Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982 are focusing on Licio Gelli, the former "grand master" of the illegal P2 Masonic lodge that plotted against Italian democracy in the 1970s. <br><br>Mr Gelli denies he was involved but has acknowledged that the financier, known as "God's banker" because of his links with the Vatican, was murdered. He said the killing was commissioned in Poland.<br><br>This is thought to be a reference to Calvi's alleged involvement in financing the Solidarity trade union movement at the request of the late Pope John Paul II, according to the sources quoted by La Repubblica newspaper.<br><br>Two Roman investigating magistrates, Judge Maria Monteleone and Judge Luca Tescaroli, sent Mr Gelli a judicial letter informing him that he is formally under investigation on charges of ordering the murder along with four other people - Flavio Carboni, a shadowy businessman with secret service contacts, his girlfriend Manuela Kleinsing, the Cosa Nostra boss Giuseppe Calo and an entrepreneur, Ernesto Dioatallevi. The four other suspects were indicted on murder charges in April and are to stand trial in October.<br><br>Investigators believe that Calvi was murdered as "punishment" for having used his position as head of the Banco Ambrosiano, then Italy's largest private bank, to seize large sums of money belonging to the Sicilian Mafia and to Mr Gelli.<br><br>The indictment also says that the five ordered Calvi's murder to prevent the banker "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".<br>Nearly 1,000 prominent public figures including businessmen such as the current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, senior army and police officers, politicians and civil servants belonged to Mr Gelli's Propaganda Due (P2) clandestine Masonic lodge, dissolved in 1981 for plotting to establish an authoritarian regime.<br><br>When interrogated by magistrates in the presence of his lawyer on 4 July, Mr Gelli strongly denied having ordered the murder of Calvi, the sources said.<br><br>The former grand master said he had known Calvi since 1975 when he was introduced to him by Umberto Ortolani, another leading P2 member, but that he had few dealings with the Banco Ambrosiano, the collapse of which in 1982 sent Calvi fleeing to London.<br><br>The only dealing he had was in 1981 when he loaned $10m to the bank's Nassau subsidiary in the Bahamas, which was repaid to him one month later, he said.<br><br>"Calvi's death was made to look like suicide," he told the magistrates. Mr Gelli said the murder was related to Calvi's dealings with the Vatican Bank, which has always denied any moral responsibility in the Ambrosiano affair. "One evening I was at dinner with Calvi. He was angry, black in the face. He told me that the next day he had to go and see 'the most Holy one' in the Vatican to get $80m that he had to pay for bills relating to Poland and that if he did not get the money everything would blow up," Mr Gelli was quoted as saying in La Repubblica.<br><br>"This happened between 1979 and 1980, and that is why I said that to find Calvi's assassins one ought to have investigated in Poland," Mr Gelli was quoted as telling the magistrates. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article300322.ece">news.independent.co.uk/eu...300322.ece</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I HAVE POSTED extensively on this before.<br><br>The Polish connection ALSO relates to the Polish Catholic order the Marian Fathers, based in Henley on thames, Oxfordshire in the UK.<br><br>They stole a vast investment portfolio in the 1970s, using Midland Bank's Reading branch manager John Bond (NOW Sir John Bond, CEO of HSBC which bought Midland some year ago). The portfolio consisted of equities, residential and commercial property and other investments. It was laundered via Banco Ambrosiano to the Vatican Bank, where Cardinal Marcinkus raised loans and mortgages on it to finance a bad spate of invetment losses in the Papal coffers relating directly to paying off KGB officials in Poland during the run up to the Solidarnosc movement.<br><br>When Ambrosiano was busted, the investment portfolio was recovered - resulting in massive losses for the Vatican Bank and Ambrosiano itself.<br><br>The involvement of the GELLI family is even more extensive that the Independent's story suggests.<br><br>Calvi was being pursued by the Vatican Bank's creditors including the Marian Fathers, who were made bankrupt as a result of massive UK court fines imposed after a spate of successful child sex abuse lawsuits in the UK brought about by parents of Polish boys who had attended the boarding school they had run in henley - called Divine Mercy College. Another lawsuit relating to the gang rape of mentally incapacitated and handicapped children living in the orphanages that the Marians ran in the UK also added to their legal bills and pushed them deeper into the abyss of bankruptcy.<br><br>The core figure in this scandal was EMILIA GELLI - former mistress of one FRANK GELLI - a Cuban-born Russian who murdered up and coming Republican politician George Herbert Bush, whom he resembled to an extraordinary degree.<br><br>Frank Gelli's father was a Russian who was elected in 1939 as 'Pope Pius XII' - under the name of Giovanni Pacelli.<br><br>I have posted recently about this in the story on the Vatican Bank being sued in the US.<br><br>Emilia Gelli had married Frank's idiot Cuban-born son Henry and worked for the Marian Fathers for some 35 years. She was involved in theft, extortion, money laundering, financing UK terrorist activity in the UK attributed to the IRA, chilld abuse rings, corruption and suborning of witnesses who testified against foreign organised crime in the UK lawcourts.<br><br>Emilia Gelli had a daughter by Henry Gelli - called Maria.<br><br>That child became "Suzy Lamplugh" - who as a 24 year old estate agent "vanished" on 28 July 1986 in Fulham, West London - officially a missing person case but treated as murder now for some years.<br><br>The City of London cops have never made any arrest over her murder. But the witnesses who did come forward and whose evidence was corroborated independently all stated that it was a top-flight young up and coming UK politician - now a world famous player on the UK and world stage.<br><br>No names no packdrill.<br><br>But his persona as billed to an adoring electorate is a total sham.<br><br>His real name is Peter Freeman, he is Maria Gelli's half brother and he has been the most senior KGB officer in the UK after Margaret Thatcher for over 30 years.<br> <p></p><i></i>