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July 27, 2021 The trial of a dozen people - including prelates, officials of the Holy See and external managers - for the management of the funds of the Vatican Secretariat of State. Among the accused - accused in various ways of crimes ranging from embezzlement to embezzlement, from corruption to extortion - also the cardinal, Angelo Becciu. 



This is a historic trial, in which a cardinal is accused for the first time, for the sale-fraud of a property in central London, at Sloane avenue 60, Chelsea, with the collection of the faithful managed by the Secretariat of State. After long months of investigations, punctuated by resignations and controversies, on July 3 the President of the Vatican Tribunal, Giuseppe Pignatone, former chief prosecutor of Rome and a great expert on mafias, indicted ten people. Among these, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, substitute for the general affairs of the Secretariat of State at the time the investment was decided, his former secretary, Monsignor Mauro Carlino, Fabrizio Tirabassi, the layman who managed the treasury of the Secretariat of State, former heads of the financial authority for anti-money laundering,René Bruelhart and Tommaso di Ruzza, and then - outside the Vatican - Cecilia Marogna, self-styled secret agent of Becciu, the banker Enrico Crasso, who for many years managed Vatican investments through Credite Suisse, the business lawyer Nicola Squillace, the broker Gianluigi Torzi, in the meantime arrested by the Rome Finance Police and accused by the Papal State of attempted extortion, and Raffaele Mincione, the financier around whom the whole affair revolves.meanwhile arrested by the Rome Finance Police and accused by the Papal State of attempted extortion, and Raffaele Mincione, the financier around whom the whole affair revolves.meanwhile arrested by the Rome Finance Police and accused by the Papal State of attempted extortion, and Raffaele Mincione, the financier around whom the whole affair revolves.



The various crimes charged to the various accused in various capacities are fraud, money laundering, self-laundering, abuse of office, extortion, corruption, embezzlement, embezzlement. The request for summons to trial is signed by the Office of the Promoter of Justice, i.e. the Public Prosecutor's Office, in the persons of the Promoter Gian Piero Milano, the Deputy Alessandro Diddi, lawyer at the Rome bar, and the Applicant Gianluca Perone.



The protagonists of the intricate affair are therefore many and their number, as well as the distancing measures necessary for the pandemic, have led the judges to adapt a hall of the Vatican Museums, more spacious than the one usually used in the court, to the courtroom, and configure that which opens before the summer break as a 'maxi-trial', which predictably will deeply shake the Vatican, and has already changed it before it even started.



The hearing is devoted to procedural issues and the constitution of the parties, including that of the Secretariat of State as a civil party. Another injured party is the IOR.