Event

Murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli

Milan liquidator shot dead, July 1979.

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Giorgio Ambrosoli, the liquidator of Banca Privata Italiana, was shot dead in Milan in July 1979. A Milan court convicted Michele Sindona in 1986 of ordering it.

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Giorgio Ambrosoli victim Scholarship & press 1
Michele Sindona convicted at first instance in 1986 of paying a hired killer to murder Ambrosoli; the sum is as UPI reported it Scholarship & press 1 2 3
Sindona was convicted at first instance; he died before any appeal. UPI reports the Vatican lost an unofficially estimated $46 to $200 million in Sindona's enterprises; nothing read links the IOR to the murder. English summary of Il Post: Ambrosoli did not yield to pressure, which turned into death threats.
Michele Sindona died on 22 March 1986 after swallowing cyanide in his prison cell; officials could not say whether suicide or murder Scholarship & press 1
Michele Sindona his death: investigators recorded suicide (Il Manifesto, 2003); ANSA writes that he was killed Scholarship & press 2 3 4
English summary: Il Manifesto (2003) says the judicial papers on the inquiry after his death hold no trace of a political murder, that investigators recorded the poisoning as suicide, and that the authors Simoni and Turone back suicide; Il Post says his death is regarded as suicide. ANSA (2015) writes that he was killed in jail by a poisoned coffee. No court judgment on the cause was read.

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Michele Sindona, mastermind of the biggest bank failure in..., UPI, 22 Mar 1986. Scholarship & press Archived copy
to murder Milan lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli in July 1979
Sindona was convicted of paying American gangster William Arico $50,000 to murder Milan lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli in July 1979.
The Vatican poured money into Sindona's financial enterprises, eventually losing a sum unofficially estimated at between $46 million and $200 million.
The gray-haired financial wizard, once called 'the most successful Italian since Mussolini,' swallowed the cyanide Thursday morning while drinking a cup of coffee.
Officials said it was still not clear whether Sindona killed himself or was murdered.
murder Milan lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli
Chi era Michele Sindona, Il Post, 2 Dec 2014. Scholarship & press
Ambrosoli non cedette alle pressioni, che diventarono in fretta minacce di morte.
la sua morte viene considerata un suicidio
Il mistero Sindona (Il Manifesto archive), il manifesto, 2003. Scholarship & press
in primo grado
l'avvelenamento venne rubricato dagli inquirenti come suicidio
Anche di recente Gianni Simoni e Giuliano Turone, i due autori di libro sul banchiere titolato Il caffè di Sindona, sposano la tesi del suicidio.
Calvi case shd be closed - prosecutors, ANSA, 7 Jul 2015. Scholarship & press
Michele Sindona - killed in jail by a poisoned cup of coffee in 1986

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