Posted on 12/10/2021 7:06:02 PM PST by marshmallow
The trial, which began in July and will resume on Dec. 14, has yet to get off the ground after procedural disputes over missing transcripts related to the prosecution’s investigations. Four of the original 10 defendants have had their charges at least temporarily dropped, leaving just six defendants currently on trial.
VATICAN CITY — A key element in the ongoing Vatican trial over a London property deal that led to massive financial losses for the Holy See is how Vatican officials came to sign off on agreements in 2018 that caused the Vatican the most damage.
A 487-page indictment published ahead of the trial gives some clue, but a recent decision by the president of the tribunal to formally exonerate Msgr. Alberto Perlasca, the Vatican official who initially signed the 2018 agreements, is generating further questions whether more senior Vatican leaders — possibly including even Pope Francis — were actually the parties who greenlit the damaging financial agreement.
The trial, which began in July and will resume on Dec. 14, has yet to get off the ground after procedural disputes over missing transcripts related to the prosecution’s investigations. These gaps also allowed for four of the original 10 defendants to have their charges at least temporarily dropped, while re-investigations into their alleged culpability are undertaken, leaving just six defendants currently on trial.
They comprise the former deputy secretary of state (sostituto) Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who is charged with abuse of office and subornation; the ex-president and director of the Vatican’s finance authority, René Brülhart and Tommaso Di Ruzza, charged respectively with abuse of office and with embezzlement and violating confidentiality; the Vatican’s investment manager Enrico Crasso, charged with fraud; Italian financier Gianluigi Torzi, charged with extortion, embezzlement, fraud, appropriation, money laundering and self-laundering; and Cecilia Marogna, a manager charged.....
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Lock him up! Bergoglio, that is.
He’s a “teflon don” in part because the global left and their elite media mouthpieces are quite happy with him right where he’s at (i.e., destroying the Church from within).
So true.
But his day is coming....
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