Angelo Becciu defends himself from the accusations. “I am proud and proud to have found funds to support the Spes cooperative, which employs 60 boys and girls, former drug addicts, former prisoners, boys with health problems. Even during the pandemic, the occupation did not disappear, on the contrary, it increased ”, said the cardinal of Pattada speaking to journalists.
“It is a Cooperative - he explains -, right arm of Caritas of Ozieri, engaged in the social problem. The accusation that was made to me is that, by sending money to Caritas in Ozieri, I wanted to favor my family. This is an accusation against which I will defend myself in court and which I have always rejected and rejected ”.
"And I reject it - he continues - with the same documentation of the magistrates that is contained in the subpoena".
Becciu, on the sidelines of the hearing of the trial for the management of the funds of the Secretariat of State, speaking with journalists, focused on the searches carried out on Tuesday in Ozieri, Pattada, Bono and Rome as part of an investigation for money laundering that from the IOR and the CEI they would end up in Bodies headed by relatives and friends of the former substitute of the Vatican Secretariat of State.
Becciu states that “the magistrates have ascertained that 100,000 euros were sent to Caritas in 2013, 25,000 euros in 2015, 100,000 euros in 2018. They ascertain that the 100 thousand euros of 2018 are firm, blocked, they are still in the Caritas account because the bishop must begin the construction of a house of service for the poor which will begin shortly. House that will be built on land donated by the municipality of Ozieri ".
Again: “The 25,000 euros were used to buy a bakery machine. These 100,000 and 25,000 euros were from the Pardon. The 100 thousand euros of 2013, they admit themselves, were a loan from the IOR that I had requested and which I repaid. I had sent them while waiting for the funds from the CEI to arrive, the Cooperative has already returned me 50 thousand euros and I have left 50 thousand as a donation to help their charitable works ”.
