Investigations IOR, Caloia: "Stranger to the facts but I resign from Fabbrica Duomo Milano"

Angelo Caloia (Ansa)

• Ior, former president Caloia and former general manager Scaletti under investigation for embezzlement

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Milan 08 December 2014 The former president of the IOR, Angelo Caloia, under investigation in an investigation into embezzlement opened in the Vatican, has resigned as president of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo in Milan.

Caloia today passed on his decision to the board members.

'' Bewildered, astonished and deeply disheartened, I am to reassure you of my total extraneousness to the facts reported by the press - he explained - Waiting for the opportunity to clarify my position in the appropriate judicial offices, I still consider it my duty to resign my resignation from the office of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano ''.

The facts reported by the press to which Caloia refers are those relating to the investigation opened in the Vatican on the sale of properties belonging to the Institute in via della Conciliazione.

A sale that would have been decided by the former president Angelo Caloia and by the former general manager Lelio Scaletti, against whom a file for embezzlement was opened.

On their accounts and those of the lawyer Gabriele Liuzzo, 16.8 million euros would have been seized.