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	Disgraced Vatican Chief 'Ordered the Murder of Teenager' By Nick Pisa The Scotsman (Scotland) June 24, 2008 http://news.scotsman.com/world/Disgraced-Vatican-chief-39ordered-.4214415.jp A DISGRACED senior Vatican official ordered the kidnap and murder of teenage girl, it was claimed last night. Monsignor Paul Marcinkus was the controversial head of the Vatican Bank at the time of the murder of "God's banker", Roberto Calvi, who was found hanged under London's Blackfriar's Bridge in 1982. Now the former lover of a dead gangster has told police that Emanuela Orlandi, who disappeared 25 years ago, was kidnapped on Mgr Marcinkus's orders and murdered. The investigation into Ms Orlandi's disappearance was secretly reopened this month and key witnesses questioned again – including Sabrina Minardi, the former lover of gang godfather Enrico de Pedis. Ms Orlandi was the daughter of a Vatican employee and was kidnapped in 1983. Ms Minardi reportedly told Rome prosecutors that de Pedis told her Ms Orlandi had been kidnapped on the "orders of Mgr Marcinkus". She added: "The girl was kidnapped to give a message to someone." She said the girl was kept in a secret apartment before being murdered. Her body was thrown into a cement mixer along with the remains of other victims killed by de Pedis' gang, the notorious Banda della Magliana. There has been speculation for several years in the Italian media that Ms Orlandi was kidnapped by the gang as part of a plot to put pressure on the Italian authorities to release Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II. De Pedis was gunned down in 1990 as he walked to his car in the centre of Rome. There has also been criticism of the fact that, despite his criminal past, he was given a full Catholic funeral and buried in a Vatican cemetery. Mgr Marcinkus was questioned about a Mafia money-laundering deal through the Vatican Bank in the early 1970s. In 1982 he was linked to the death of Mr Calvi and also the failed attempt on the life of on Pope John Paul II. He died in the United States two years ago.
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