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The Underworld Podcast

The Death of "God's Banker", the Vatican, a Pope's Murder, Mafia Plots and a Secret Masonic Coup

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When Roberto Calvi's body was found swinging from a London bridge in 1982 it sent shockwaves through the religious, financial and criminal worlds. But who killed him? And how are the Vatican, Italy's powerful Mafia, a secret society called P2 and a Pope's death all linked in this wild, barely believable web of deceit and dollars? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Roberto calvie is on the run.

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It's June 10th, 1982.

0:38.9

A year after Calvie's bombshell trial for banking fraud.

0:43.0

One had exposed not only his dirty dealings,

0:45.8

but that of a secretive Masonic sect named Propaganda Dewey, or P2. Then Calvia tried to kill himself, but he failed. A year later, all kinds of

0:58.8

revelations are tumbling out about P2, about its leader, a notorious fascist once powers with Herman Goering, its involvement with

1:07.0

violent mobsters, links to Italy's military, its politicians and the Vatican City.

1:14.0

To whom Calvie has formed such a close bond and with whose finances that of his own

1:19.4

Banker and Broziano is so intertwined that people simply refer to him as the Bantieri de Dio, God's banker.

1:28.9

Calvie's conviction added him a $20 million fine and a four-year suspended prison term.

1:34.8

An appeal looms.

1:36.8

But God's banker is convinced he's being chased by a bevy of devils.

1:41.6

He bumps up security, hiring goons and kicking his car out with bulletproof

1:46.1

windows. He ships his family out of the country and on that June 10 in 1982, which is a Thursday, he disappears from his Rome apartment,

1:57.8

telling nobody's destination, save for a shady clique of businessman and a feared human trafficker who will act as his bodyguard.

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