(Katholisch).
Late last year, ten defendants were tried in the Vatican for financial crimes. Nine of them were convicted, among them Cardinal Becciu. Now the former director of the facilities of the Secretariat of State has filed a complaint against the Vatican.
Investment manager Raffaele Mincione, at the center of the London property scandal and the Vatican trial against him, has filed a formal complaint with the United Nations. According to media reports, Mincione claims that he has been denied his rights in the ongoing proceedings against the Vatican. Mincione also criticizes alleged procedural violations during the investigation, which lasted more than three years.
The Italian worked as an investment manager for the Vatican Secretariat of State from 2014 to 2018. According to the Internet portal “El Pilar”, the complaint to the office of the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers also contains a repetition of previous legal criticism of the search warrants approved by Pope Francis in 2019 that were used to conduct the investigation. These included four executive acts, the so-called rescripts, which allowed the electronic surveillance of certain suspects by the Gendarmerie Corps for a limited but renewable period. This was intended to guarantee the protection of the research results.