Licio Gelli

Italian financier, liaison with Nazi Germany, P2 grandmaster, involved in many scandals (1919-2015)

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Lived 1919–2015, aged 96Italy
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    1919–2015
    Aged 96
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Updated 2026-06-12

Licio Gelli was an Italian Freemason, businessman, and terrorist. A fascist volunteer in his youth, he is chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and in the Bologna massacre. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2). This would lead to him getting arrested in Switzerland in 1982. He managed to escape from prison the next year, but eventually agreed to surrender him back into the custody of Swiss authorities for a short period of time in 1987. From 1996 until his death in 2015, Gelli remained mostly under house arrest at his home in Arezzo, Italy.

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