For Italian prosecutors he was the heart and motor of the conspiracy that conducted the luckless banker to his death. A Magliana Band witness has described the diminutive businessman as he received workmen building a swimming pool for him in the garden of his villa off Rome’s Via Aurelia. He was high on cocaine, wearing only his underpants and with a pistol tucked into the waistband. The witness, Fabiola Moretti, who was romantically linked to Danilo Abbruciati, the man shot dead during an attack on Ambrosiano deputy chairman Roberto Rosone, attributed the scene to Francesco Pazienza, but the magistrates interviewing her concluded that she was actually referring to Carboni. Pazienza had never owned a villa on the Via Aurelia, but Carboni, who was known for his fondness for cocaine, had.1 The flamboyant Sardinian property developer was introduced to Calvi by Pazienza. It was 16 August 1981 and Calvi was recuperating in Sardinia with his wife after his traumatizing experience in Lodi prison.
