Finally, the federal prosecutor Franco Picardi dismissed a complaint asked to investigate the sayings of Pope Francisreferring to alleged acts of corruption carried out by public officials in Argentina. In the ruling, the Prosecutor’s Office justified that in the statements of the Supreme Pontiff not specific a specific event from which promote a judicial investigation.
Francisco’s sayings were pronounced on last September 20 in a meeting held by the leader of the Catholic Church with international social leaders, among whom was Juan Grabois. There, the Pope detailed an alleged situation where a secretary of a minister would have requested bribes to grant permits relating to extension investments: “The devil enters through the pocket, don’t forget“, he stated.
The Justice Department dismissed the investigation into Pope Francis’ statements regarding an alleged case of corruption
The complaint was filed by lawyer Alejandro Sánchez Kalbermatten, but prosecutor Picardi understood that “did not provide precise data” that add something to “the succinct public statement of the supreme pontiff” which is why “it is unfeasible to be able to delimit a criminal hypothesis.” In this way, the prosecutor’s office finally rejected advancing in the corruption investigation.
In his opinion presented before federal judge Ariel Lijothe Prosecutor’s Office understood that a fact from which to launch a criminal investigation is not specified. Now, Judge Lijo You must now decide whether or not to file the complaint.
The initial complaint was based on sayings of Francisco issued on September 20in it Vaticanwhere he told a story he learned about an alleged case of corruption. In this way, the text requested as a test measure summon the Supreme Pontiff, Grabois and other attendees at the meeting as witnesses.
Francisco’s statements about an alleged case of corruption
The judicial uproar began when Pope Francis cited an alleged case of a minister who asked a foreign investor for a bribe. The statements were issued during a meeting in the Vatican with leaders of social movements held on September 20.
“He told me a international entrepreneur that was making investments in Argentina to extend what they were carrying out, and He went to present a new plan to the minister of new extensions. The minister treated him very well and said ‘Leave it to me, they’re going to call you…’“, began the story of Supreme Pontiff.
Then, Francisco added: “The next day, the minister’s secretary called him, told him if he could come ‘in two days, so we will give you the permit.’ He came by, gave him the papers and the signature and when he (the entrepreneur) was about to get up, he said to him: ‘And for us, how much is there?’ The bribe. The devil enters through the pocket, don’t forget.”
Francisco avoided naming when this anecdote that he related occurred, although he also, later, criticized the current administration for the repression carried out in Congresswithout making direct reference to the event or to public officials. From this the lawyer Alejandro Sánchez Kalbermatten He took Francisco’s statements and filed the complaint with the Justice Department.
Source: Ambito
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