In September 2021, according to Vatican News, APSA received a first round of 16 offerssubject to due diligence (due dilegence) in the following months, followed by a second round of 3 offers. The transaction was completed in recent months with the buyer’s choice and finally the Sell script.
To guarantee the transparency and independence of the valuation process, the Holy See requested the help of the real estate agent savillsselected at the end of a tender procedure launched in January 2021, under the supervision of real estate consultants.
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Losses incurred in respect of the amount spent on the purchase of the building were transferred to the reserve of the Secretary of statewithout affecting the Peter’s Pence and with him to donations from the faithful.
Along the same lines, the Vatican “minister” of Economy, Juan Antonio Guerrero-Alvesassured that “the irregularities of the real estate operation not only left a hole in the Vatican accounts among €73 and €166 millionbut also caused a research who brought a cardinal to trial for the first time in history“.
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Through this process, the cardinal angelo becciu He has been on trial since July 2021 along with nine other people, including some financiers involved in the buy and sell and what they did with millionaire commissions.
By taking the investigation to trialwithin the 73 pages dedicated to analyzing the work of the cardinal, the Vatican prosecution considered that “elements also emerged against Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciuagainst whom we proceed, as required by law, for the crimes of embezzlement and abuse of functions also in competitionas well as bribery“.
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On March 17, Becciu was interrogated for the first time, in a unprecedented fact for the Vatican justicewhen asked exclusively about one line of investigation, which seeks to clarify whether the funds of the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), the Vatican bank, and the Italian Episcopal Conference they ended up in the hands of entities and people related to the accused cardinal.
According to the record of sending to trial, the investigation showed “a network of relationships with financial market operators that generated substantial losses for the Vatican’s finances, having also drawn on resources intended for the Holy Father’s personal charitable works”within a mega fraud scheme.
Source: Ambito
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