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Woman arrested 21 years later
10/12/2003 08:28 - (SA)
London - British police investigating the 1982 murder of Italian financier Roberto Calvi arrested a London woman on Tuesday.
Calvi, whose close ties to the Vatican led to the nickname "God's banker," was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London 21 years ago.
Calvi's family has long contended he was killed, but a London coroner's jury could not decide if it was suicide or murder.
British police announced in September that they had opened a murder inquiry into Calvi's death after a detailed review of the case.
They arrested the 42-year-old woman on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice and perjury, charges that are believed to relate to inquest testimony.
The woman, who lives in west London, was questioned by City of London Police and released on bail until February.
Italian prosecutors issued a report in July concluding that Calvi was slain.
City of London Police spokesperson Peter Holt said in September that his force, working closely with Italian counterparts, were following up "a number of angles" identified in a review the whole case file, and that it was being treated as a murder inquiry.
Calvi was dubbed "God's banker" because of his ties with the Vatican's bank and its former top official, American Archbishop Paul C Marcinkus.
His body was found within days of the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, of which he was president and in which the Vatican's bank held a significant stake. The collapse was Italy's biggest postwar banking scandal.
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