Italian banker accidentally dropped to death when thugs were dangling him out of his office window. (AI image)
David Rossi, the communications director of the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena, died in 2013. After 13 years, new evidence surfaced to a parliamentary commission that had been investigating the death and two unnamed men claimed that the ex-chairman of the bank sent thugs to threaten Rossi after Rossi decided to tell authorities about the bank’s dealings with the mafia. But then the grip slipped accidentally and Rossi dropped 60 ft to his death.
It was believed till date that he committed suicide, as his body was found beneath an open window of the bank’s headquarters in Siena. But the plan was not to kill him, only to threaten him by dangling him from his office window. The bank, at that time, was facing a corruption scandal and its finances were in shambles. The ex-chairman of the bank who ordered the threatening was Giuseppe Mussari.
The parliamentary inquiry was ordered in 2021.
Another witness said the hired thugs parked their van at the entrance to the alley to stop passers-by from spotting Rossi’s body. CCTV footage also showed two men looking at the body on the street before walking away. Two initial inquiries concluded that he had taken his own life but his family insisted that he was murdered.