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October 28, 2019According to the Financial Times report, an investment fund supported by the Vatican is at the center of a corruption investigation and Giuseppe Conte, who would have given legal advice before being named prime minister, would be connected to the fund. The connection with Conte, revealed in documents viewed by the FT, "will probably trigger investigations by the Vatican Secretariat of State, which is the subject of an internal investigation into suspicious financial transactions".

"Conte was an academic from Florence who was little known when he was hired in May 2018 to provide legal advice in favor of Fiber 4.0, a group of shareholders involved in a struggle for control of Retelit, an Italian telecommunications company last year - reads - The main investor in Fiber 4.0 was the Athena Global Opportunities Fund, financed entirely for 200 million dollars by the Vatican Secretariat and managed and owned by Raffaele Mincione, an Italian financier ".