Masonic \Ma*son"ic\ (m[.a]*s[o^]n"[i^]k), prop. a. Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
Among the groups believed to have been involved were the Mafia, the notorious P2 masonic lodge and the Vatican, through its own financial institution.
Both the Salvo cousins are dead and Mr Andreotti has denied knowing them. Mr Pecorelli was a journalist linked to the secret masonic lodge P2 and the extreme right.
Others named in the investigation included Licio Gelli, the Italian financier who headed an outlawed masonic lodge, his aide Umberto Ortolani, Italian financier Anna Bonomi Bolchini and 25 board members and officials of the collapse bank.