Rothschild Bank AG Zurich tied to Calvi Murder and P2 Masonic Lodge

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:43:54 GMT

Most sensationally, Heer recounted a potboiler indirectly connecting his bank to the

death of Roberto Calvi, chairman of the collapsed Banco Ambrosiano, who was found

dangling under London's Blackfriars Bridge in June 1982, his pockets filled with bits

of bricks and $15,000 in sundry currencies. Later that same year an associate of a

higher-up in Italy's banned P2, the shadowy Masonic lodge with ties to the Mafia,

phoned Heer requesting his participation in a secret mission. After giving his assent,

Heer received at the bank an envelope containing half of a torn dollar bill, plus a

leather suitcase. A few days later two men arrived at the bank driving an armored

Mercedes; one of them produced the matching half of the dollar. Heer duly delivered

the suitcase. Shortly thereafter, in a conversation with his P2 contact, Heer inquired

as to the nature of the mysterious exchange, and was informed that the suitcase had been

stuffed with $5 million in P2 cash–