Drezzo - Magistrates yesterday exhumed the body of Roberto Calvi, the Italian banker found hanging from a London bridge in 1982, for an autopsy they hope will establish for certain whether he was murdered.
Calvi's remains were taken from the cemetery of the tiny town of Drezzo, on the Swiss-Italian border, to Milan for tests. Forensic scientists will look for signs of whether the man nicknamed "God's banker" was murdered before being transported to Blackfriars Bridge, beneath which he was found dangling by the neck. Calvi, the former chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in 1982 after he fled to London, was renowned for his close ties with top-ranking Vatican officials.