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Trial for the murder of Roberto Calvi

Rome assize court, 2005-2007; appeal, 2010.

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Oct 2005 – 7 May 2010
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Rome

Five people were tried in Rome for the murder of Roberto Calvi and all were acquitted on 6 June 2007. The appeal court upheld the acquittals of three of them on 7 May 2010. The Court of Cassation turned down the prosecutor’s appeal.

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  • Flavio Carboni defendant; acquitted in 2007 and on appeal in 2010 Scholarship & press 23

    English summary of the Italian press report (Blitzquotidiano, 15 July 2010) on the appeal court's reasons: Calvi was killed and did not take his own life; there were too many conceivable alternative motives and too many people and bodies with an interest in his removal, from the mafia, the camorra, P2, the IOR and Italian politicians, and, the court said, possibly British and Italian secret services; informants reported only what they had heard from others; substantial indications weighed on Carboni, but the many alternative motives did not point to one on him. Carboni: "a judicial error", and he is "more than ever convinced that Roberto Calvi killed himself".

  • Roberto Calvi the 2007 court's reasons, as Reuters reported them Scholarship & press 4

    Reuters, November 2007: the court released its reasons for the June 2007 acquittals and cited a lack of evidence against the accused.

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  • Death of Roberto Calvi Scholarship & press 25

    The five defendants were Giuseppe Calò, Flavio Carboni, Ernesto Diotallevi, Silvano Vittor and Manuela Kleinszig. None was accused of physically killing Calvi.

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  1. Oct 2005 – 7 May 2010 Trial for the murder of Roberto Calvi
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  1. Calvi case shd be closed - prosecutors, ANSA, 7 Jul 2015. Scholarship & press
    appealed those acquittals in December 2010 but was turned down by the high Court of Cassation
  2. Five acquitted of killing 'God's banker', The Irish Times, 7 Jun 2007. Scholarship & press
    Another defendant was Flavio Carboni, a Sardinian property developer
    Lawyers for the main defendants argued that he had probably committed suicide or, at least, that there was no proof he had been murdered.
    Giuseppe "Pippo" Calò, a Sicilian mafia boss who is serving multiple life sentences for crimes.
    Prosecutors in Rome started a new investigation in 1998 and concluded that Calvi had been killed at Blackfriars Bridge.
    The Rome court where the case has been heard since October 2005
  3. I giudici d'appello: "Calvi non si ammazzò, fu ucciso", Blitzquotidiano, 15 Jul 2010. Scholarship & press
    Roberto Calvi è stato ammazzato, non si è ucciso
    e troppi i soggetti e le organizzazioni che avrebbero avuto interesse all’eliminazione di Calvi: dalla mafia, alla camorra, alla P2, allo Ior e ai politici italiani
    hanno portato delle informazioni che hanno riferito di aver appreso
    E’ stato un errore giudiziario. Sono più che mai convinto che Roberto Calvi si sia suicidato
    possono anche comprendersi i Servizi segreti inglesi
    non c'e' dubbio gravino indizi consistenti
    la pluralita’ di moventi alternativi non pare concentrarne uno piu specifico su Carboni
  4. Mafia ordered God's banker murder (Reuters), Reuters (via NZ Herald), Nov 2007. Scholarship & press
    It's more credible that the killing of Roberto Calvi was decided as a punishment and to prevent him from revealing his relations with people who acted as a link to the criminal organisation
    In its explanation, the court said prosecutors had relied on circumstantial evidence from witnesses who were now dead, some of them killed.
    Similar operations can be considered compatible with the mentality of mafiosi and have similar precedents in the criminal history of the Cosa Nostra
  5. All acquitted in 'God's banker' murder trial, The Associated Press (via NBC News), 6 Jun 2007. Scholarship & press
    London investigators first ruled that Calvi committed suicide, but his family pressed for further investigation and eventually murder charges against the five defendants.
    Prosecutors had alleged that Calo had ordered that Calvi be murdered so that he would not talk to investigators
    None of the defendants in the trial was ever accused of physically killing Calvi.
    New forensic tests in 2003 on Calvi's shoes found no traces of paint or metal from the scaffolding under the bridge, indicating he did not scramble across it but was killed elsewhere and his body later hung from the bridge.
    Calvi was laundering money for mobsters who believed the banker had taken some of the money for himself.
    He noted that the jury had ruled that that the defendants hadn't committed "the deed."
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