Posted on 03/21/2023 7:54:29 PM PDT by ebb tide
Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra admitted to asking Vatican national police to spy on the director of the Vatican's primary bank.
The sostituto of the Secretariat of State, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, appeared as a witness before a Vatican City court on Friday, telling judges that he had ordered unsanctioned electronic spying on the phone of the director general of the IOR, the Vatican bank which had rejected a loan application from Peña Parra’s office.
Admitting that he ordered electronic “monitoring” of IOR director Gianfranco Mammì, both in Vatican City and in Italy without a court order, raises questions about the operation of the rule of law at the highest levels of the curia, and accountability among Vatican law enforcement personnel.
When Archbishop Peña Parra took the witness stand March 17, he confirmed prior testimony from former officials at the Secretariat of State, who said that Peña Parra had ordered an investigation of Gianfranco Mammì in retaliation for the bank’s rejection of a demand for a 150 million euro loan, which would have been used to refinance a Vatican Secretariat of State investment into a London property.
The archbishop also confirmed that he contracted a former Italian intelligence officer to put the banker under surveillance, making use of the banker’s mobile phone to keep tabs on Mammi’s activity.
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Bergoglio surrounds himself with mostly spies, liars, crooks and homos.
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Read “In God’s Name” by David Yallop. The Vatican is nothing more than this...............a corrupt establishment.
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