Forty years ago Giorgio Ambrosoli was shot dead in Milan. "The culmination of a certain way of doing finance, of a certain way of doing politics, of a certain way of doing economics"
The night of 11 July 1979, forty years ago, the lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli was killed with three pistol shots under the house in Milan, in Via Morozzo della Rocca: he was 45 years old. From 1974 he was liquidator commissioner of the Italian Private Bank, an institution almost bankrupt by the Sicilian banker Michele Sindona, who had established relationships with very important pieces of politics, finance and organized Sicilian crime. The day after his death, on 12 July 1979, Ambrosoli should have signed a formal declaration to confirm the need to liquidate the bank and attribute responsibility for the situation to Michele Sindona.
The killer was the Italian-American mafioso William Aricò, who was later found to have been hired by Michele Sindona and paid with 25 thousand dollars in cash and another 90 thousand credited to a bank in Lugano.