Bricks in the Pockets
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London, Friday, June 18, 1982, 2 pm. At 7:30 am, a postal worker found the banker Ettore Malvasi, 62, hanging from a rope on the scaffolding under a Thames bridge.
Chairman of the Banco Valsassina of Milan, which collapsed this week leaving a hole of over a billion dollars, he fled Italy on Monday with a forged passport and his mustache shaved off.
In his pockets, 5 kilos of bricks and 15 thousand dollars in three currencies. Nobody took the money. Only the black leather briefcase he never let go of is gone.
Three people looked after the hideout in Chelsea. One of them knows how a 62-year-old man got down to the scaffolding in the middle of the night.
Rented flat in Chelsea, London, 1982, with Italian newspapers scattered about and a typewriter.
Suspects
Ignazio SperandioConstruction businessman from Rome who organized the banker's escape, 51
Zeno MarcuzziThe banker's bodyguard, a former boxer from Trieste, 37
Glenys ThornburyEnglish interpreter hired through an agency since Tuesday, 31
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