Scandal in the Vatican, the personal account of the Pope also emptied: 20 million disappeared. Total “looting” bill: nearly 500 million

A pillage of 454 million euros. An operation that has even been done with the hands confidential account of the Dad. That’s what, based on what you write Republic, emerged from the investigations of Vatican magistrates started in the summer of 2019 to shed light on the purchase of the Sloane Avenue Building. The newspaper publishes the reconstruction of the rogatory presented by the Vatican prosecutor on the London real estate operation. According to the Promoter of Justice Gian Piero Milan and its aggregate Alessandro diddi “The Secretary of State finances the London operation with lines of credit from Swiss credit and of Bank of Italian Switzerland for 200 million dollars guaranteed through the pledge of goods owned by the Secretary of State and found in the donations of theSaint Peter pennies“That is the money of the Pope’s charity. The objective is to buy the building in London, the former headquarters of Harrods, but the value of the property goes up enormously. For Vatican prosecutors,” before the subscription of the shares by On the part of the Secretary of State, an important accounting revaluation is carried out by the fund managers who, in the state of the investigations, do not seem to find a valid economic reason. “

In the investigation the role of the financier emerges Raffaele Mincione come film director of the entire operation, active in games ranging from the fight for the Genoese bank Carry to that for the control of Retelite, in which he was assisted by the lawyer Giuseppe Conte until a few days before the settlement at Palazzo Chigi. Around him there is a whirlwind of acronyms that only serve to swallow money, unleashing the appetites of power groups. So it gets in the way Gutt Sa, a Luxembourg company owned by Gianluigi torzi, a financier considered “high risk” and included in the lists of the world’s bad press, “with contracts – Vatican prosecutors write – signed by Monsignor Alberto Perlasca as proxy for the deputy monsignor Edgar Peña Parra. Gutt Sa acts as an agent for the Secretary of State to manage the property. And the Secretariat verbally agrees to pay Gutt Sa a sum of 3 per cent equivalent to 10 million euros. This agreement is not formalized in any contract. “

Why does the Vatican trust Torzi? Fabrizio TirabassiAt the time of the events, a minor from the administrative office of the Secretary of State alleges that he was a victim of blackmail: “Extortion perpetuated by Torzi. “The researchers believe that this version” in all probability conceals a sensational artifice well orchestrated, with the complicity of Tirabassi and perhaps other people ”. The financial operation is disastrous. “The fund’s shares are losing 18 million euros. The Gutt Sa operation generates a loss of 100 million. In summary, compared to an outlay of 250 million, the Secretary of State owns a property that on paper would be worth 260 million but to secure the property of which in the end it will have to bear a cost (net of mortgage interest) equal to 363 million “. The Pope’s magistrates also discover that there are several characters that are enriched by this risky real estate investment to say the least. The lawyer Nicola Squillace of the Libonati Jaeger Study receives “200 thousand euros for a generic legal consulting order, more than 150 thousand for a series of professionals indicated by him.” And immediately afterwards he issues another invoice for 364 thousand euros. There are even UK studios holding millions without degrees. All without the knowledge of the Pope. Tirabassi and Monsignor Perlasca, at that time head of the administrative office of the first section of the Secretary of State, even entered the “Discretionary Fund of the Ubs created in 2015 for the discretionary expenses of the Holy Father and authorized by him.” From there they get 20 million pounds for Torzi who invoices 5 million as consultancy for other real estate transactions proposed to the Vatican: a hotel in Milan in San Siro area, a palace in Piazza Cavour, one in the 5th avenue in New York, a hotel forDubai Expo.

But financial transactions on the health front also emerge from the documents of the Vatican magistrates. Securitization of loans advanced by private hospitals and cooperatives to local health authorities. Companies that are thus inserted in the relations of the Fatebenefratelli of Rome with the Lazio Region. And above all, the Vatican is linked to a cooperative, the Osa, which, thanks to Tirabassi’s recommendation, obtains a record contract for the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital owned by the Holy See. Entrusted to a subject who is informed “to strong ties and environments and people of the Camorra de Apulia (Clan Campana me Sacra Corona Unita) “. According to the Vatican prosecutors, it is from this series of financial investments that Tirabassi and Torzi carry out the Gutt Sa operation,” a well-planned maneuver to carry out a huge looting of resources from the Secretary of State that does not It has the same. “The work of the now former director of the Financial Information Authority of the Holy See is also in the eye of the magistrates, Tommaso Di Ruzza, son-in-law of the former governor of the Bank of Italy Antonio Fazio. According to prosecutors, who should have avoided these financial speculations “played a unclear paper in the London affair. He did not in any way perceive the anomaly of the operation “, despite having entertained a correspondence with those involved. And they add: “Di Ruzza packed it on letterhead from the Office a proxy to work in favor of Torzi as an intermediary. “And it turned out that he is the owner of an English company called Aquinas Foundation. But investigations by Vatican prosecutors are not over yet.

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