Michele Sindona Michele Sindona, unscrupulous banker who was known as "Jaws" and who ran a financial institution in Switzerland and led to the bankruptcy Banca Privata Italiana, served for decades as the financial arm of the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia. Sindona was also accused of paying bribes of $ 5.5 million to Calvi and Marcinkus. In 1986, Michele Sindona was sentenced to life in prison for the death of lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, occurred in 1979. Ambrosoli was nominated by the Italian court as liquidator of the bankrupt estate of Banca Privata Italiana, when he discovered the criminal activities of Sindona in the financial institution. Before that, Michele Sindona was appointed by Pope Paul VI as financial advisor to the Vatican and a member of the board of the Vatican Bank. Given the facts, the Vatican, without having to explain the appointment of criminal, informed by noting he had been tricked by Sindoma. Serving time in maximum security prison in Lombardy, Michele Sindona promised to reveal details of the scandals, but died in his cell in March 1986, while drinking coffee, During expertise, police discovered that the drink contained cyanide, the same tactic used to assassinate John Paul I.
Emanuela Orlandi's case The daughter of a Vatican official, Emanuela Orlandi was not the protagonist of the scandal, but victim of a criminal organization that was headed by Marcinkus Pauli. Emanuela disappeared in 1983 when she was 15, and was never found. What was to be a trivial case of disappearance became, in a short time, most sinister chapter in the scandal that had the Banco Ambrosiano in the bow and involved the Vatican, the Vatican Bank and a criminal organization known as "Banda della Magliana , "who served in the Italian capital. The "Banda della Magliana" was led by Enrico de Pedis, a delinquent who, along with their partners in crime, acted in drug trafficking, money laundering and turf. Beside the Gladio, the "Banda della Magliana" participated in terrorist attacks carried out during the Cold War, with the aim of destabilizing Italian politics during what was called the "Years of Lead". The "band" was accused of participating in the murder of journalist Carmine Pecorelli, the former Prime Minister Aldo Moro and the then chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Roberto Calvi, and involvement in the bombing of Bologna railway station. Manuela Orlandi's disappearance was linked to the failed attempt to assassinate Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. In June 2008, Sabrina Minardi, former girlfriend of De Pedis, said in testimony that Emanuela was kidnapped and killed by "Banda della Magliana", and his body thrown in cement crusher, at the request of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus. Enrico de Pedis approached Marcinkus through Roberto Calvi, Ambrosiano's then president, who welcomed and washed the dirty money "Banda Magliana it."
