By Nick Pisa
Sunday Express (United Kingdom)
June 29, 2008
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/50337/Tomb-clue-to-kidnap
A GANGSTER'S body is to be exhumed in the latest chapter of 25-year-old Vatican mystery.
Enrico De Pedis was shot by his own gang in 1990. His former lover Sabrina Minardi has claimed that Vatican bank chief Paul Marcinkus ordered De Pedis to kidnap schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi, 15, in 1983.
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Two years ago a caller to an Italian TV programme said the mystery would be solved if the De Pedis tomb in Rome was opened.
There has been speculation that Miss Orlandi's body may have been hidden there.
The daughter of a Vatican employee, she was kidnapped two years after a failed attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II to which Marcinkus was linked.
Ms Minardi told prosecutors: "The girl was kidnapped to give a message to someone. The order came from Marcinkus."
Marcinkus, who died two years ago, was questioned about laundering Mafia money through the Vatican Bank and in 1982 was linked to the death of banker Roberto Calvi in London.
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