ITALY: Roberto Calvi, "God's banker", the Italian financier whose body was found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in central London more than 20 years ago, was murdered by the Mafia for mishandling its money, according to prosecutors charged with investigating one of Europe's most opaque criminal mysteries.
Three men and a woman have been told they could now be tried for the 1982 killing.
Court-appointed forensic experts concluded that Calvi was not, as often previously assumed, murdered elsewhere and then suspended below the bridge.
According to extracts from a report they prepared, to be published today in the magazine L'Espresso, he died by being hanged under the bridge from a boat.
The death of Calvi, originally deemed to be suicide, has confounded amateur detectives and inspired conspiracy theorists for a generation. - (Guardian Service)