Silvano Larini died at the age of 91, he was close to Craxi and involved in Mani Pulite

Larini is also remembered for being involved in the Mani Pulite investigation: according to the reconstructions made by the investigations, he represented a central figure in the trafficking of illicit financing destined for the Socialist Party. After a long hiding in Polynesia, Larini handed himself over on 7 February 1993 to the public prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro at the Ventimiglia crossing. This marked a turning point in the investigations, which focused heavily on the mystery of the 'Protection Account', number 633369 at the Swiss bank UBS in Lugano, which had appeared over ten years earlier in the papers linked to Licio Gelli's P2 Masonic lodge. Larini claimed that the account was in his name, but that it was Craxi who asked him to make it available for financing operations abroad to support the party's activities. According to his story, Craxi, accompanied by Claudio Martelli, asked him to lend the account to the PSI. It was therefore an account formally attributable to Larini, but which would have been used for financial operations linked to the PSI. His revelations had significant political consequences and contributed to the crisis that led to Martelli's resignation as Minister of Justice. The judicial parable ended, for the chapter of the 'Protection Account', with the sentence pronounced by the Court of Milan in 1994 to five years and six months of imprisonment. In 1997, on appeal, four years of the sentence were pardoned; the decision was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1999.

Born in Milan on 17 February 1935 into a wealthy family, son of an entrepreneur active in import-export with the Far East, Larini spent part of his childhood in Calcutta, British India. Returning to Milan, he studied architecture at the Polytechnic, where he also became known for his public stance in favor of women, in controversy with Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, archbishop of Genoa at the time, who was against women in trousers. In a letter to the weekly "Il Mondo" he wrote: "It is precisely from a man in a skirt that an accusation against women in trousers should come."

Larini operated in the international clothing trade, holding a relative majority shareholding in Borsalino (the historic hat factory in Alessandria). But he also held the position of managing director of Lombardia Diritti (a regional Lombardy company active in the energy sector): precisely this role, together with the relations with the Milanese intermunicipal plan (territorial planning structure around which economic interests and procurement gravitated) was the subject of the reconstructions of the relations between public administration, businesses and politics.

His friendship with Bettino Craxi was one of the common threads in his public and private life. Larini regularly frequented the socialist leader's house in via Foppa, where a circle of friends gathered on Saturdays, but he also took part in Monday meetings with party leaders. It was through his network of Milanese relations that, according to journalistic reconstructions, relations between Craxi and Silvio Berlusconi were also consolidated. During the years of socialist power, Larini moved between entrepreneurs, financial companies and political circles, becoming a trusted operational interlocutor. The news gave him the nickname "Bettino's postman" for the role he played in the transfer of money and in connections with the socialist leader's circles.

Married for the first time at the age of 25 to Mirina Scacchi Gracco, belonging to a well-known family of silk manufacturers from Como, after four years Larini married a second time and then a third, the latter to Viviana Lecchi, a photomodel in her youth.

After Tangentopoli, Larini dedicated himself to painting, a passion born at a young age. In the obituary entrusted today to "Corriere della Sera", his wife writes to announce his death: "Silvano Larini Architect. Painter. Designer. Genius loci. Naturalist. Dieep and refined thinker. Forever Viviana".