Vatican, here is Monsignor Perlasca’s hidden truth about Cardinal Becciu

Published on: 09/30/2020 4:24 PM

(from Mia Grassi) First a letter to the Pope to express his “cry of pain” at 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 (which the Adnkronos became aware of) that led him to decide to answer the questions of the researchers from beyond the Tiber.

Protagonist despite himself in the earthquake in the Vatican that caused the “resignation” of Cardinal Angelo Becciu is Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, a former right-hand man of Beccio 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 embezzlement 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.

Vatican, which is Monsignor Perlasca: for years a central figure in the Secretariat of State

According to what Adnkronos learns, Perlasca would therefore be the man of mystery around whom rumors about the detailed revelations that led the Pope to accept the resignation of the Vatican have circulated for weeks in the newspapers and in the secret rooms of the Vatican. Becciu. The monsignor, in a desperate and heartfelt “cry for justice”, allegedly told a cardinal close to him numerous information about the years he spent with Becciu in the Secretary of State, the same ones that he would later inform the Vatican investigators that he was they listened. . Words that obviously need an answer but that at this moment represent one of the accusations of the cardinal who resigned.

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 will also focus on the role of Becciu in the period when 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.

Among the many things said by Perlasca also the prudence that Becciu would have used and recommended in communications and the ex-cardinal’s very close relationship with journalists, acquaintances of whom, always Perlasca, does not exclude that Becciu has used in some way. during their tenure. Perlasca would have referred, among other things, to the case of Mons. Battista Ricca, the case of Monsignor Edgar Pena Parra, the indiscretions about the illness of Cardinal Parolin, at the birth of the Mater Olbia hospital.

In addition to the details about the history of the Becciu brothers, of which the letter to the Pope, the relief to the cardinal and finally the river interrogation with the Vatican investigators, Perlasca would also have informed the cardinal some details about the management of the London palace by the financier. Raffaele Mincione.