Italian banker was 'dropped to his death by mistake' when thugs dangled him out of his office window 'only to threaten'

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. 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. 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 the plan was not to kill him, only to threaten him by dangling him from his office window. But then the grip slipped accidentally and Rossi dropped 60 ft to his death. 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.Reports claimed that Rossi was moving millions of euros from one account to another for the Grande Aracri clan, a powerful group within the southern Italian ’Ndrangheta organisation, and Rossi was going to tell the authorities about th...