Opus Dei financier found dismembered under bridge
Posted: Monday, July 24th, 2006 4:56 amThe badly beaten and mutilated corpse of Gianmario Roveraro, one of Italy’s reputedly most pious financiers, was discovered “cut to pieces” under a motorway overpass near Parma yesterday, some two weeks after he was kidnapped while returning home from a meeting of the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of the kidnapping and macabre murder of Mr Roveraro, a banker who had been questioned by investigators in connection with the spectacular €14bn (£9.5bn) collapse of the Parmalat food empire in 2003. …
The killing recalled the murder of Roberto Calvi, the Italian financier known as “God’s Banker” for his links to the Vatican, who was found hanged fromBlackfriars Bridge in London in 1982. … Read full obituary
