Penthouse Bertone, the Vatican opens investigation. The lawyers of the Cardinal: “Never authorized the payment” – Rai News

Attico Cardinal Bertone seen from above (bottom left)

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March 31, 2016 the Vatican confirmed that the judiciary of the papal States has opened an inquiry into the attic restored by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone at the Vatican. The judges – to reports the press room – have entered in the register of suspects two people: Giuseppe Profiti, former president of the Infant Jesus and managers close to the cardinal, and the former treasurer Massimo Spina.

The Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone “reiterates he never gave directions, or authorized, the Foundation Child Jesus to any payment with respect to the apartment occupied by him and owned by Governorate, “says the lawyer Michele Gentiloni Silveri.

the legal, “on behalf” of the same Bertone and in relation to the article that will be published in the next issue of L’Espresso, said “as the letter sent by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone to the prof. Giuseppe Profiti the November 8, 2013, confirming the full truthfulness of what he always claimed to be. “

in fact -Detects in the legal-cited answer becomes clear to prof. Giuseppe Profiti that the will of S.E. nothing is to be borne by the Foundation Child Jesus, announcing at the same time that it will be the same Cardinal Bertone proceeding seeking funding for the work to be discharged in the apartment. “

” Successivamente- adds Gentiloni Silveri- Cardinal Bertone, not having received any payments from third parties, he personally paid the amount requested by the Governor in relation to the work performed in the apartment assigned to him and the property of the latter. “

the story
an apartment of 296 square meters to a hundred meters from Casa Santa Marta, where the Pope resides. a penthouse condominium. restructuring costs for € 422 thousand. And the involvement as the injured party, hospital Child Jesus. They are the coordinates of the story on the home of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who crops up periodically and, most recently, has led – the news Espresso was confirmed today by the Vatican – enrollment under investigation by the Vatican court two former managers of the same pediatric hospital owned by the Holy See.

the story emerged shortly after the end of the mandate of Tarcisio Bertone as secretary of state before Benedict XVI and , for the first few months of Francis. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Salesian retires early, in late August 2013, and was succeeded by Pietro Parolin. Bertone leave the apartments of Secretary of State and looking for an apartment for retirement. The press soon emerge the story of a princely apartment with mega penthouse suite.

“I do not stop to collect the stones that are thrown at me,” he replied the first time in a letter to the diocese of Genoa and Vercelli, of which he was archbishop. “They were two apartments affected by natural disasters and abandoned for years,” he explained to the Corriere della Sera last December.

The apartment “is 296 square meters. And we do not live alone. I live with a community three sisters who help me, there is also a secretary that the Holy Father has granted me to write the memory of three Popes, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francesco. there is the library, the archive, rooms for all”. In addition, although the press has spoken for months of a mega penthouse, “there is no attic. I live on the third floor and the balcony was not mine, it was restored during the works but that’s condominium, on top of the building. And ‘ of all tenants, cardinals and archbishops, who live there. “

on the restructuring expenses criticisms accumulate. They come out cyclically in the newspapers, most recently found in the bestseller Gianluigi Nuzzi (Via Crucis) and Emiliano Fittipaldi (Avarice) in the center of the story of the escape of confidential documents of the Vatican (Vatileaks).

The prosecution more serious is that it has used the pediatric hospital Bambino Gesù money for the renovation. “The Governor told me about an expense 300 000 €: I paid with my savings for an apartment that is not my property and will remain at the Governorate”, Bertone replication. “I consider myself a victim of these years. I worked at the Papal service with loyalty and dedication, and also at the service of the Infant Jesus. I have done so much, and now I find myself these defamatory accusations. I do not know, now I am being targeted. The name Bertone draws immediate attention.

Today, confirmed by the Vatican, “the same Fittipaldi, co-defendant in the Vatileaks process, revealed that” the Vatican has opened an investigation into the attic of Tarcisio Bertone, and already entered in the register of two suspects: Giuseppe Profiti, former president of the Infant Jesus and managers close to the cardinal, and the former treasurer Massimo Spina. ” The expenditure incurred would be of 422 thousand euro. The alleged crimes were “embezzlement, appropriation and misuse of money.”

Bertone is not investigated. Profiti, interviewed at the time by Giovanni Minoli, who replied with evening-event promotion for the hospital in the apartment of Bertone “We realized in the next three years – said the manager – the major initiatives of the Foundation, the ones with the highest return economic. “

Again:” the fact that the Cardinal has decided with its own savings to cover this restructuring, however, shows that it was not unknown to him, but he knew what he was doing and I would emphasize l` intention with which

as for the accounts, with a distinction that would explain the difference between 300 thousand and 422 euro mentioned by the cardinal mentioned expressively, Bertone” has reimbursed expenses, part of dall`amministrazione supported restructuring of the State of Vatican City. the Foundation’s contribution, given by the Foundation to the restructuring, was covered by a formal commitment dell`impresa manufacturer to recognize a contribution to the Foundation to be used for l`acquisto equipment. A contribution to be given in two installments, the company has had problems that took many companies due to the crisis in this area, when I left, the first tranche had not yet been delivered. “

last December, however, the new president of the Child Jesus, Mariella Enoc, chosen by the new secretary of satato, Pietro Parolin, announced: “the Cardinal Bertone did not receive the money directly, but acknowledged that we had an injury and then comes to us with a donation

As for” other responsibilities of the administrative past, “said Enoch still have the attention” of the Vatican’s justice. “Chioso Cardinal Pietro Parolin Secretary of State’s successor Bertone, that the story “is being solved positively and all in all in a constructive way.”