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The historic trial centered on what happened in and around the Secretariat of State’s 350-million-euro purchase of an investment property in London between 2014 and 2018.
The correspondence between the two, which took place in July 2021, was read and displayed in a Vatican court March 9 — an unexpected turn of events coming during the 50th hearing of the trial.
Behind every decision and litigation, in the end, one can glimpse a power struggle, whether it is big or small, systemic or personal.
The building at 60 Sloane Avenue in London is at the center of the Vatican’s historic corruption trial, which began at the end of July 2021.
Cardinal Becciu is charged with embezzlement, money laundering, fraud, extortion, and abuse of office.
Interrogated on Thursday, July 7, Fabrizio Tirabassi, a former official of the Secretariat of State, said the Pope had authorized the Secretariat to ask for a loan from the Institute of Works of Religion, commonly referred to as the Vatican Bank.
Mincione spoke before the court on June 6-7, with the support of 18 blue binders of documentation.
The 18th and 19th hearings of the trial offered a glimpse inside the financial operations of the Vatican’s top dicastery.
Cardinal Becciu was questioned by Vatican prosecutor Alessandro Diddi for nearly eight hours on May 18 as part of the Vatican’s trial to prosecute Vatican officials and collaborators for financial malfeasance.
The hearing marked the first day of witness testimony in a landmark trial of 10 defendants accused of financial malfeasance, mostly in connection with a London property purchased as an intended investment by the Vatican Secretariat of State.
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