Inval politie bij Heilige Stoel Vaticaan

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De politie van het Vaticaan heeft een inval gedaan bij het Staatssecretariaat van de Heilige Stoel en de Financiële Informatie Autoriteit (FIA). Het Staatssecretariaat is het belangrijkste bestuursorgaan binnen de Romeinse Curie. De FIA gaat over de geldstromen binnen het Vaticaan.

De politie deed de invallen in een onderzoek dat is gestart na klachten van de bank van het Vaticaan over de financiën van de pauselijke staat. Volgens een bron binnen het Vaticaan heeft het te maken met de aan- en verkoop van vastgoed. De precieze reden voor de invallen is niet bekendgemaakt.

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SecPompeo twitterde op dinsdag 01-10-2019 om 06:43:12 Wheels up, and heading to Europe. Our enduring partnerships in Europe are critical, and I look forward to productive conversations on a range of global issues, including protecting #religiousfreedom and advancing economic prosperity. First stop: Rome and the Holy See. https://t.co/sV5Z5fnkEu reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 1 oktober 2019 22:04 schreef -Chakotay- het volgende:
Klimaatlobby start in het vaticaan

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Op dinsdag 1 oktober 2019 22:36 schreef Tanatos het volgende:
De politie van het Vaticaan heeft de inval gedaan, de schade en schandalen zullen dus waarschijnlijk wel meevallen.
Het zelfreinigend vermogen van de katholieke kerk is me tot op heden ietwat tegengevallen.

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"In the Vatican corruption, embezzlement and fraud": here are all the accusations made by Pope Francis.

L'Espresso has obtained the magistrates' papers on the financial scandal that is shaking the Holy See. In the investigation involved the heads of the Secretariat of State and assault financiers who received million-dollar commissions in 2019.

After the investigation that revealed the contours of the new financial scandal in the Vatican, L'Espresso has obtained new confidential documentation of the criminal investigation opened by the Pope's prosecutors on some real estate transactions in London. Cards that are at the center of the exclusive newsstand service from Sunday 20 October and already online on L'Espresso.

This is the complaint of the Pope's General Auditor and the accusations arrived from the director of the Ior Gian Franco Mammì. Some confidential reports of the $ 200 million deal for the purchase of a 17 thousand square meter building in London. And above all the 16 complete pages of the search decree of the Promoter of Justice with which employees of the Secretariat of State were investigated and pieces from the Nineties of the Holy See such as Fr Mauro Carlino (the former secretary of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, whose L'Espresso publishes telephone interceptions with weighty Italian managers such as Snam's Luca Del Fabbro) and the director of AIF Tommaso Di Ruzza. Analyzing the documents, it is clear that the Holy See is facing a scandal that has few precedents in recent history.

The promoters Gian Piero Milano and Alessandro Diddi believe that they have identified "serious indications of embezzlement, fraud, abuse of office, money laundering and self-laundering" regarding the behavior of clerics and assault raiders, while another report was made by the Auditor Alessandro Cassinis, in fact the "Raffaele Cantone" of Francesco, hypothesizes "very serious crimes such as embezzlement, corruption and abetting".

The businesses that ended up in the lens of the investigators also concern not only the era of Angelo Becciu at the Secretariat of State, but also that of the new Substitute for General Affairs of the Venezuelan Edgar Pena Parra, Francesco's loyalist appointed just a year ago.

In the investigation financiers such as Raffaele Mincione and businessmen talked like Gianluigi Torzi (it appears that the State Secretariat in 2019 would have paid Torzi fees for 10 million euros), the unscrupulous moves of powerful prelates such as Don Carlino, Monsignor Alberto Perlasca and Luciano Capaldo, an architect little known to the chronicles but with large Oltretevere entrances.

But the documents reveal above all that the Secretariat of State owns and manages extra-budgetary funds for the beauty of 650 million euros, "deriving in large part from the donations received by the Holy Father for charitable works and for the sustenance of the Roman Curia". It is the Obolo di San Pietro, which the Vatican instead of turning to the poor and needy invests in reckless speculative operations. With the help, also, of Credit Suisse, "in whose branches Swiss and Italian it is paid up about 77 percent of the assets managed". About "500 million euros", reports the Office of the General Auditor, who ended up in financial operations which in the opinion of the magistrates show "glaring irregularities", as well as opening "disturbing scenarios".

The L'Espresso survey tells the story of the operation of the Falcon Oil operation, an attempted $ 250 million investment by the Vatican in an oil platform in front of the Angolan coast (a business in which the Eni, the state-owned company Sonangol is the Falcon Oil of the African financier Antonio Mosquito, while confidential documentation reveals the complex system of companies - almost all in offshore havens - used by the Vatican to shield London's millionaire business.

But the papers of the Vatican magistrates point out that even the AIF would have played "an unclear role" in the affair. The body chaired by René Bruelhart would have "neglected" the anomalies of the real estate operation, and the director of Ruzza would "entertain a correspondence with the English study Mischon De Reya (the lawyers called by the Secretary of State to follow the famous transaction with Mincione and Torzi) with which the AIF would seem to have given the green light to the purchase operation and to the fees in favor of Torzi.

In reality there are other evidences not mentioned by the magistrates. Which shows how the AIF, once notified by Pena Parra, immediately notifies the British and Luxembourgish anti-money laundering authorities, blocking the operation. And asking for it to be restructured with the necessary transparency.

For Pope Francis it will not be easy, in the face of the new scandal, to extricate himself from real enemies, false friends, good advisers and bad advisers.

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Op zaterdag 19 oktober 2019 17:20 schreef RapaNui het volgende:

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Het is een ingewikkelde zaak. Ben benieuwd wat er meer zal volgen.
Het onroerend goed in Londen was het bezit van bankier Raffaele Mincione die al 30 jaar in Londen woont. https://www.huffingtonpos(...)93d5e4b0b5c9be4aef21

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Volgens Mincione heeft het Vaticaan een goede investering gemaakt.

Ik ben benieuwd wat er niet pluis zou zijn in deze zaak, anders dan dat een deel van het geld afkomstig zou zijn van giften bestemd voor de armen. Ben benieuwd wat er boven water komt ...

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The papers that will be published Sunday by the Espresso reveal above all that the Secretariat of State owns and manages extra-budgetary funds for 650 million euros, "deriving in large part from the donations received by the Holy Father for charitable works and for the support of the Roman Curia" . End up financing real estate through the screen of companies, even offshore (two of the Vatican employees under investigation are formally owners of some of them).

This is the Pontifical Mission of St. Peter, who instead of turning to the poor and needy invests in reckless speculative operations. With the help, also, of Credit Suisse, "in whose branches Swiss and Italian it is paid up about 77 percent of the assets managed". About "500 million euro", reports the Office of the General Auditor, who ended up in financial transactions which in the opinion of the magistrates show "glaring irregularities", as well as opening "disturbing scenarios".