Italian masonic leader Licio Gelli dies aged 96

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Source: BBC

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An Italian financier who was linked to several of the country's most troubling episodes has died at the age of 96.

Licio Gelli was the grandmaster of a notorious masonic group, Propaganda Two (P2), which included prominent Italian politicians and military figures.

P2 was exposed in 1981 and accused of conspiring with right-wing extremists and the mafia to undermine governments.

Gelli was born in 1919 and first became involved in politics as part of the fascist movement of Benito Mussolini.

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From Reuters UK:

Italy's murky masonic leader Gelli, linked to decades of plots, dies

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Exposed in 1981, P2 was accused of conspiring with right-wing extremists and the Mafia to destabilise governments through bombings and violence, often blamed on extreme leftists.

Gelli was sentenced to 12 years in jail for fraud in connection with the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, whose boss Roberto Calvi -- known as "God's banker" for his ties to the Vatican -- was found hanged under a bridge in London in 1982.

Gelli was also found guilty of obstructing justice during investigations into one of the darkest episodes in Italy's recent past -- the 1980 explosion of a bomb at the Bologna train station which killed 85 people.

A Rome judge in 1995 linked Gelli with a 1970 plot for a military coup in Italy, but the case was shelved because a statute of limitations had kicked in, meaning the crime could no longer be prosecuted.

Link: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-italy-gelli-idUKKBN0TZ1N620151216