God's Banker: An Account of the Life and Death of Roberto Calvi

By Rupert Cornwell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0575033517
• ISBN13: 9780575033511
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.

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An expert introduction, but many developments since

Cornwell's details of the Calvi-Vatican worldwide fraud come from a financial reporter who understands banking and stock manipulation games - and the Vatican Bank, known by its cover name, The Religious Works Institute, was at the core of the operations, secretly controlling the shell companies and even Calvi's giant bank. The Vatican silenced the angry creditors by hush money payments and costs of over half a billion dollars, while harboring the bank's archbishop and his two aides from criminal arrest warrants for seven years. Only Calvi's death removed his personal testimony from demolishing the Vatican strategy. His family said Calvi was going to "name names."