Vatican and London property investigation: Cardinal Angelo Becciu resigns and resigns as cardinal

“Today, Thursday, September 24, the Holy Father has accepted the resignation of the post of Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and of the rights linked to the Cardinal, presented by His Eminence Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu.” This was reported by a bulletin from the Vatican press office, unusually published in the evening. As it has been known, the Pope’s decision was recently communicated by Bergoglio himself to Becciu in a shocking audience. The now former cardinal expresses great bitterness when answering to the Adnkronos after his resignation: “I prefer silence,” he simply says with a broken voice.

Becciu he had ended up at the center of the investigation into the luxury property bought by the Vatican in London, worth more than 200 million euros, when he was replacing the Secretary of State of the Holy See. Later, he defended himself saying that someone had “taken advantage of the situation”. But he had also said that not even a penny Peter’s Pence had been used to purchase the property and that the building had “greatly appreciated after Brexit”, claiming it was a good investment for the Vatican. He had finally revealed that he was not personally investigated having been authorized to proceed by his superiors. The investigation led to seizure of computers and documents in the offices of the Secretary of State and Aif, and the suspension of five officials, among them the director of the Aif Tommaso Di Ruzza and Monsignor Mauro Carlino, Becciu’s own secretary.

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It is the first time since Bergoglio was pontiff that a cardinal of the Curia resigns, in addition to the position in his own Dicastery, to «rights»Connected to the cardinalate. Angelo Becciu, created a cardinal by Pope Francis himself, had no time to return to his apartment at night other than the news of his “resignationIt had already been officially published with the newsroom bulletin. Becciu, after a career as apostolic nuncio, spent a long time Substitute in the Secretary of State At the age of 70 he had received the cardinal hat from Francisco, as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. his sensational resignation, about which there are no other official communications at this time, cannot be linked to the case of the Secretary of State building in London.