ROME, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- An Italian judge adjourned the trial Thursday of five people charged with involvement in the killing of the man nicknamed "God's banker."
Roberto Calvi was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982. His death was first ruled a suicide but investigators later decided Calvi was a victim of homicide.
The judge in Rome postponed the opening of testimony until November because one defendant, Silvano Vittor, learned only last week he would be on trial, the BBC reported. Vittor was Calvi's bodyguard and driver on his last trip to London.
One defendant, Pippo Calo, is serving a life sentence in Italy for Mafia crimes. The other defendants are businessman Flavio Carboni, his ex-girlfriend Manuela Kleinzig, who is from Austria, and Ernesto Diotallevi.
Calvi, the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, was known as "God's banker" because of his close ties to the Vatican. At the time of his death, he was free on bail while appealing his conviction on a corruption charge.
