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In full- newspaper bombshell which sinks the Bad Ship Parolin - see also detail of legal judgements-UPDATED

Parolin, there is his signature on the last document of the Sloan Avenue affair that marked the Becciu case

A few hours before the start of the Conclave, while the debate focuses on the poisonous nature and alleged conspiracies, new documents emerge that shed more and more light on the affair of the palatial residence in London, culminating in the great scandal for Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who retired a few days ago. The last document circulating in the Vatican and which Il Tempo publishes exclusively, bears the signature of the Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin, favoured among the Papabili of the Conclave that is about to open. A signature at the bottom of the memorandum, dated 25 November 2018, which describes in detail the financial and property operation that the Vatican had until now denied knowing in detail, attributing the responsibilities to individuals. Under the memorandum, Parolin writes a comment in his own hand that, instead, would seem to confirm that the Holy See was not only informed of the Sloane Avenue affair, but that the Secretariat of State, in its highest office represented by Parolin, had personally authorised the operation. "Having received assurances on the substantial nature of the operation (which would bring advantages to the Holy See), its transparency and the absence of reputational risks (which, indeed, exceed those related to the management of the Gof Fund)," Parolin writes, "I am in favour of signing the contracts."

Cardinal Becciu

The document, which the Secretary of State wrote with his signature, describes the various steps of the acquisition of the Sloane Avenue property, taken  at the suggestion of Credit Suisse of London, which then brought Becciu into the centre of the storm. A document that in 2018 was endorsed by Parolin. So much so that at the bottom of the memorandum, which outlines the exit from the Palace Fund (which ultimately cost the Vatican 40 million euros and which, in recent days, led the English High Court to condemn the Holy See to pay 4 million euros in legal costs to Raffaele Mincione, owner of the building), (see most recent judgement and earlier judgement and related material)  there is the handwritten note by Parolin, with which he authorizes the operation and the stipulation of the contracts, which would have led to the purchase of the palace through the Luxembourg company Gutt.Sa, owned by the broker Gianluigi Torzi. A decision that Parolin would have taken, as he himself writes, after having heard, the evening before, the opinion of Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, the great accuser of Becciu, and that of Fabrizio Tirabassi, one head and the other minuter of the Administrative Office of the Secretariat of State.

This formal green light from the Holy See had never been discussed in all this scandal. It had always been believed that the initiative had been taken by individuals, without formal approval, to the point that Becciu paid a high price in the trial of the century, which ended in the first instance with the Cardinal being sentenced to five years and six months in prison for embezzlement and aggravated fraud, even though the trial showed that the cardinal had not pocketed even a cent. This document, contained within the trial file but never leaked, is found on page 97 of the attachment called "All 15 Annotation by PG Squillace with attachments", which is part of the second folder of documents filed by the office of the promoter of justice, Alessandro Diddi, on 20 August 2021. A memorandum that would show another version of the story of that great scandal on the extra-budgetary funds of Peter's Pence, which were intended for the poor and instead were used to do business. And now these new revelations could re-open the Becciu question, which seemed closed after the controversial letters from Pope Francis, which excluded the cardinal from the Conclave, and with the Cardinal's resignation, formalized in recent days.

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In fact, old news that was totally ignored at the time. It cannot and should not be now.
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