Italy indicts four people for murder of ‘God’s Banker’

FOUR people were indicted yesterday on murder charges in connection with the death of Italian financier Roberto Calvi, the man known as ‘God’s Banker’ because of his close ties to the Vatican, whose body was found hanging in London in 1982, reports said.

Businessman Flavio Carboni; his ex-girlfriend Manuela Kleinzig, and two men with alleged ties to the Mafia, Pippo Calo and Ernesto Diotallevi, will stand trial in October on murder charges, the Italian news agencies ANSA and Apcom said.

Calvi was dubbed “God’s Banker” because of his ties with the Vatican’s bank and its former top official, American Archbishop Paul C. Marcinkus.