“Pope Francis distributes the cardinal Angelo Beccius from the papal secret”. The Cardinal Secretary of State said so Pietro Parolinein a letter to the President of the Vatican Court, Giuseppe Pignatone. During the first part of his interrogation in the trial of the Secretariat of State’s financial investments, in which he is accused, Becciu had stated that he wanted to confirm “the papal secret” on some allegations, notably competitive embezzlement, the executive director Cecilia Marogna. However, the cardinal said he was “ready to accept what will be decided by the competent authorities”. Hence Pignatone’s request to Cardinal Parolin, who forwarded Bergoglio’s decision to the court.
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On April 7, Becciu will be able to comment on all the allegations against him. The Pope’s decision was announced at the beginning of the eleventh audience of the process taking place in the Vatican. Trial entirely devoted to the interrogation of the other ecclesiastical defendant in the case: Monsignor Mauro Carlino who worked for a long time in the State Secretariat. In court, Pignatone also reported that the assistant magistrate Alessandro Diddi opened one further procedure for the financing of the CEI for the diocese of Ozieri in Sardinia. Cardinal Becciu is accused in the ongoing proceedings of having allocated further funds to the same body and to the Spes Cooperative, the operational arm of the diocesan Caritas, legally represented by the Cardinal’s brother, Antonino.
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“I didn’t lift a finger without having the approval of superiors,” Monsignor Carlino told the judges, referring specifically to the time he was secretary to the Deputy Secretary of State, Monsignor Edgar Peña Parra. “About everything that happened added the priest I constantly informed both the Secretary of State and the Holy Father. I was amazed that he was charged. The deputy asked me for loyalty, obedience and discretion. I couldn’t help it. After a few months I found this mess. I didn’t know about the London building until January 2019 when Monsignor Peña Parra told me that there was a problem due to a major error of the Administrative Office of the Secretariat of State to which I did not belong.
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The error, explained Monsignor Carlino, “affected the thousand shares with voting rights bequeathed to Gianluigi Torzi, which allowed him to continue managing the building even after it had been bought by the Secretariat of State. The will of the Pope was to spend as little as possible to repossess the building. Carlino also specified that his role was simply to maintain relations with the broker, adding that the deputy had told him that Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, the key witness for the Vatican prosecutors, “had shown himself unfaithful and disobedient. The London Palace contracts were signed by Monsignor Perlasca without the consent of the superior: here lay the great infidelity”. Regarding the outcome of the negotiations with Torzi, Monsignor Carlino announced that the replacement had decided to pay 15 million euros to end the relationship with the agent and thus restore full ownership of the London building to the Secretariat of State. Finally, the priest set a milestone, which was celebrated with a dinner offered by the vicar on behalf of the pope.