Shortly after the stroke of midnight on October 4, 1974, Licio Gelli made a call to Sindona, who was staying at a chalet in Switzerland, to inform him that the Italian government was preparing two warrants for his arrest: one for a false 1971 balance sheet and the other for filing a fraudulent statement of bankruptcy. “Leave Switzerland before they notify Interpol,” Gelli said. “Get out of there so that they can’t extradite you. If you don’t, our enemies will torture you. They may even kill you…. It is very dangerous, Michele. Things have changed.”35 Things, indeed, had changed. Throughout
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