Posted on 02/18/2020 5:44:59 PM PST by marshmallow
Vatican authorities have seized documents and computers belonging to a senior curial official as part of an investigation into financial misconduct, the Holy See announced on Tuesday.
In a statement issued on February 18, the Vatican press office confirmed that investigators had raided the office and home of Msgr. Alberto Perlasca, the former head of the administrative office at the First Section of the Secretariat of State. The raid is part of an ongoing investigation into financial misconduct by officials at the secretariat.
“This morning, as part of a search ordered by the Promoter of Justice, Gian Piero Milano, and the deputy, Alessandro Diddi, documents and computer equipment were seized at the office and home of Msgr. Alberto Perlasca,” the Vatican statement said.
Perlasca was the head of the Secretariat of State’s administrative office from 2009 until July 2019, when Pope Francis appointed him Promoter of Justice at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature; chief prosecutor of the Church’s highest ecclesiastical court.
The statement confirmed that “the measure was taken in the context of the investigation into financial investments and the work of the Secretariat of State.”
Vatican authorities have been investigating financial activities at the Secretariat of State since October, when Gendarmes staged similar raids at the offices of the secretariat and the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority. Those raids resulted in the suspension of four staff at the Secretariat of State as well as the director of the AIF.
The raid on Perlasca’s home and office was in connection with “interrogations” of the five suspended officials, the statement said.
The investigation involves a complicated series of financial transactions through which the Secretariat of State acquired a luxury property development in London for hundreds of millions of euros. Two of the four suspended officials at the Secretariat of......
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If it is embezzlement, why is law enforcement not involved in the investigation?
The UK has this peculiar group called Scotland Yard, they may know something about investigative methods for embezzelment.
The Vatican is actually a city State, or in other words like it’s own country. Therefore when an investigation of this type comes up it is handled internally rather than by local Authorities
Then why is a foreign state allowed to investigate crimes committed in the UK?
A dicey proposition to be sure, although it was committed involving a property on British soil the initial pushback is the investigation internal o the Vatican officials to determine who is involved
If you have seen the movie Godfather 3 there is a subplot of misappropriated monies from the Vatican Bank by one of the officers who strongarms Michael Corleone to cover the loss in order to get a positive vote on a company he seeks to buy.
Look up Operation Gladio at he end of WW2 between The Vatican, Intelligence bureaus and The Mafia
Very deep state and New World Order cloak and dagger stuff
Directly answering your question someone is pulling strings very high up as this scandal comes at a very bad time for the Vatican in light of all the other turmoil underway in the Church globally
:::If it is embezzlement, why is law enforcement not involved in the investigation?:::
It looks like it is not against the law of the land, just not the guidelines set out be the Vatican.
“Becciu said in October, insisting that the deal was “regular and registered according to law.””
Says most Dem, white collar crimminals.
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