Stunning claim Cardinal paid witnesses to convict George Pell

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Cardinal George Pell returns to Rome for first time since acquittal Catholic News
When he left Rome in 2017, Pell was head of the Vatican’s Secretariat of the Economy which was working on cleaning up the church’s vast finances and eliminating abuse. His trip to Rome comes just days after a powerful Vatican cardinal, Giovanni Becciu, was fired after Pope Francis accused him of embezzlement and nepotism. Pell and Becciu were at odds over reform of the Vatican’s accounts. In a statement sent to the Catholic News Agency on September 26, Pell said: “The Holy Father was elected …
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There is one group that has been right into corruption and trying to link into Vatican banks…
 
Peebo . . .
Very disturbing if true.
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Wow! No doubt disturbing.

Thank you for posting this Peebo. As tough as it is to hear this, we need to be well-informed too.

I’ll certainly be watching to see how this plays out.

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A senior Italian cardinal has been accused of siphoning $1.14m of Vatican funds to pay witnesses in George Pell’s sex abuse trial to secure a conviction against his bitter rival.

Italian media are reporting allegedly corrupt Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu is suspected of wiring the cash to people testifying in Cardinal Pell’s trial to ensure their hostile testimony.

This allegedly occurred during the 2019 trial of Cardinal Pell who was accused of molesting choir boys in Melbourne in the 1990s, convicted, sentenced, imprisoned and later cleared.

In a scandal gripping the Vatican, it was alleged this was a ploy to derail Cardinal Pell’s exposure of Cardinal Becciu, between whom it was reported there existed a “huge enmity”.

The 72-year-old Italian is allegedly suspected of funnelling Vatican cash to charities and businesses run by his three brothers.

Cardinal Pell, who returned to Rome on September 30, was freed after 18 months in jail when the High Court of Australia quashed his conviction in April. . . .

. . . Cardinal Becciu has strongly denied the allegations . . .

. . . Cardinal Pell had been assigned by Pope Francis to clean up Vatican accounting practices.

But Cardinal Pell’s attempts were blocked by Cardinal Becciu, who had held an influential role in distributing and investing millions of euros of Catholic donations.

Cardinal Becciu had been deputy secretariat of state between 2011 and 2018 before Pope Francis removed him and placed him in charge of running the Holy See’s department responsible for making saints.

Last month, the Pope sacked Cardinal Becciu from that job and stripped him of the right to elect popes.

This happened as Vatican investigators began to sift through Cardinal Becciu’s secretariat of state spending record.

In question was a multi-million luxury property in Chelsea, London, which Cardinal Becciu oversaw and which allegedly lost the Vatican money while making millions for consultants. . . .
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umamibella said:
I might get flagged out of here if I do, so here is a hint, Southern Italian and corruption and horse heads.

Do not ever call me silly again if you want the courtesy of discussion from me.
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You were the one who brought the “group” that apparently everyone should know without naming it.
Better not to have said anything in the first place.
 
Curious use of quotation marks there Peebo

Mods should combine all these threads into one. They keep multiplying.
 
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