The process on the management of the investments of the Secretariat of State continues in the Vatican (embezzlement, fraud, abuse of office, embezzlement and self-laundering of the alleged crimes), involving Cardinal Angelo Becciu .

In the courtroom, during the last hearing, the financier Raffaele Mincione testified, advisor in the Falcon Oil project for oil extraction in Angola , which the cardinal of Pattada would have "supported", but which Mincione said he had rejected " noting the lack of financial guarantees "and then proposing to enter the property of the" well-known " building on Sloane Avenue, in London .

"The investment in London was certainly more 'conservative' for the Secretariat of State than the oil project in Angola. With this it was clear that they would lose everything . Given the oil trend, it would have been the final grave", he said. called Mincione, claiming the goodness of his work.

The trial will resume on 22 and 23 June. Four more hearings are therefore scheduled for July before the summer break.

(Unioneonline / lf)

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