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My Grassi
First a letter to the Pope to express his own “cry of pain” for the scandal that engulfed him in the first person, despite – he assures – his good faith. Then the desire to help the Pope clear up the opacity in the Vatican. Then the confidences to a cardinal that led him to decide to answer the questions of the researchers from beyond the Tiber. The protagonist, despite himself, in the earthquake in the Vatican that caused the “resignation” of Cardinal Angelo Becciu is Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, Becciu’s former right-hand man at the time he was substitute for General Affairs as head of the administrative office of the first section of the Secretary of State, already investigated for misappropriation of funds in competition with Gianluigi Torzi and Raffaele Mincione in relation to the investment of 454 million euros derived, according to Vatican investigators, from donations of the Saint Peter’s Pennies.
Perlasca would therefore be the man of mystery around whom indiscretions about the detailed revelations that led the Pope to accept Becciu’s resignation have been circulating for weeks in the newspapers and in the secret rooms of the Vatican. The monsignor, in a desperate and heartfelt “cry for justice”, would have told a cardinal close to him numerous antecedents about the years he spent with Becciu in the Secretary of State, the same ones that he would later inform the Vatican investigators that it they listened. . Discounting the details of some financial transactions, Perlasca would have outlined the figure of his former superior, describing her as predominant in the Secretary of State. Becciu, for Perlasca, would have had a good time from the beginning to gain the trust of the Secretary of State staff with his calm and courteous way of giving orders and his ability to avoid direct confrontations. The monsignor also reportedly spoke of Becciu’s relations with his loyalists, including former secretary Monsignor Carlino, investigated for extortion as part of the investigation into the London palace, with Fabrizio Tirabassi, at that time head of the administrative office of the Secretary of State. , to Enrico Crasso, who was the CFO of SDS through the Sogenel Capital holding company, and to broker Gian Luigi Torzi, arrested and later released as part of the same investigation. Perlasca would also focus on the role of Becciu in the period in which Parolin was sometimes absent for health reasons. In his outburst, the monsignor would have explained that in the Secretary of State everyone was convinced that the Pope’s man was Becciu and not Parolin, and that the substitute did nothing to make people think otherwise.
Among the episodes in which Perlasca’s outburst of the cardinal would have focused, also that of the 100,000 euros for the Sardinian cooperative that later turns out to be the Spes di Ozieri, of which Becciu’s brother, Tonino, is president and who was center of the pope’s objections to the former cardinal. Perlasca would have revealed that he did not know the details but that he had had a request from the then alternate for general affairs of the Secretary of State to seek a solution to make a transfer of 100,000 euros to a Sardinian cooperative in serious difficulty, also explaining that La de Becciu was a recurring concern and a constant thought due to the extreme poverty of those territories so dear to him. Perlasca reportedly said that he was informed about how to proceed with the transfer and that, in consultation with his collaborators, they had suggested dividing the amount into several actions to avoid investigations by the Superintendency. However, Becciu responded to his proposal that he had already found the solution: transmit the entire sum to the diocesan Caritas of Ozieri with the Holy Father’s causal works of charity. The accusations, those of Perlasca, must be taken with due caution pending confirmation in a Vatican investigation.
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