The Vatican Tribunal, at the request of the promoter of justice, today again indicted the four defendants of the trial on the management of the funds of the Secretariat of State , born from the purchase of the London building, for which the documents had been sent back to the same prosecutor's office: I am Monsignor Mauro Carlino, former secretary of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the financier Raffaele Mincione, the lawyer Nicola Squillace and the Vatican official Fabrizio Tirabassi, for all the alleged crimes.
In the next hearing, scheduled for February 18, the two sections in which the trial was divided will be definitively reunited. The new citations signed by President Giuseppe Pignatone also concern Becciu limited to the accusation of subornation of the key witness Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, who thus also falls into the trial. For the other defendant Tommaso Di Ruzza, former director of the Vatican Anti-Money Laundering Authority (Aif), on the other hand, the dismissal for a hypothesis of embezzlement was decided, while the other charges remain standing.
The adjunct justice promoter Alessandro Diddi explained that "in recent months, in which the defenses of the accused had asked for more information and the interrogations of those who had not been subjected to them in the preliminary phase, none of the defendants came for questioning. We however, we conducted the investigations anyway, depositing seven folders of new investigations ".
THE DEFENSES - The lawyers have advanced further objections of nullity of the procedure due to the still omitted or incomplete filing of the documents by the Office of the promoter of justice.
The lawyer Fabio Viglione, defender of Becciu, argued that there is "a very large part of the electronic documents" that was not delivered in the requested copies. In particular, of a total of 255 computer media seized, 239 were not issued in copies, while none of the copies delivered "can be qualified as a forensic copy" and "all copies are made up of more than partial data".
