FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH
I WROTE ON JANUARY 9th, 2012:
THE VATICAN AND THE MAFIA
I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO MY FRIENDS AND SPIRITUAL BROTHERS WHO ARE CATHOLIC AND TO THE LAY WHO ARE SYMPATHIZERS OF CARDINALS, BISHOPS AND THE HOLY FATHER HIMSELF.
YOU HAVE HEARD ME OFTEN SCREAMING LOUDLY, DURING CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS, THAT THE VATICAN HAD BEEN COMPELLED AND TO SOME EXTENT WON BY THE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS, FIRST OF ALL COSA NOSTRA. FOLLOWING THIS INQUIRY, WHICH HAS BEEN PUBLISHED TODAY BY THE WEBSITE OF REPUBBLICA, SIGNED BY TONACCI AND VIVIANO, I RECKON TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT I WAS NOT WRONG.
IN THE DISCHARGE SENTENCE FOR ROBERTO CALVI?S MURDER, A DEFENDANT AMONG OTHERS WAS COSA NOSTRA?S BOSS PIPPO CAL?, AND EVEN IF IT IS A SENTENCE WITHOUT CULPRITS, THERE IS ENOUGH MATERIAL TO MATHEMATICALLY DEMONSTRATE, THANKS TO THE RIGOROUS WORK OF THE PROSECUTOR TESCAROLI, THAT LARGE SUMS OF MONEY OF CRIMINAL ORIGIN HAVE TRANSITED THROUGH THE IOR IN ORDER TO BE LAUNDERED. IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SENTENCE OF MAY 7TH, 2010: "COSA NOSTRA EMPLOYED THE BANCO AMBROSIANO AND THE IOR AS MEANS FOR MASSIVE MONEY-LAUNDERING OPERATIONS. THE NEW FACT WAS THAT ALSO VITO CIANCIMINO (A FORMER MAFIA MAYOR OF PALERMO, WHO DIED IN 2002, EDITOR?S NOTE) PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN IT, NOT JUST GIUSEPPE CAL?. CIANCIMINO?S SON MASSIMO WITNESSED IN THE SAME TRIAL HOW HIS FATHER HAD PLAYED A CENTRAL ROLE IN LAUNDERING A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY BOTH FOR HIMSELF AND FOR THE CORLEONESI.
NOW I WONDER WHY POPE BENEDICT XVI OR ONE OF HIS DESIGNATED VICARS DOES NOT GIVE ANY REPLY TO THE JUDICIAL INQUIRIES FORWARDED BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ITALIAN JUSTICE? WHAT IS THE POSITION OF THE HOLY CHURCH IN FRONT OF A SENTENCE ISSUED BY AN ITALIAN COURT OF JUSTICE? AND WHAT IS THE REACTION OF THE MANY FAITHFUL PEOPLE IN FRONT OF SUCH TERRIBLE AND, EVEN IN LAY TERMS, ANTICHRISTIC TRUTHS?
THANK GOD, AND IT IS NECESSARY TO SAY SO, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT ONLY THE ONE INVOLVED IN MAFIA BUSINESS AND MONEY-LAUNDERING, IT IS ALSO THE ONE OF MISSIONARIES SAINTS OF THE GOSPEL AS DON CIOTTI, FATHER ZANOTELLI, BUT THIS IS NOT ENOUGH!
WE FAITHFUL PEOPLE ARE CALLED FIRST TO ASK AND DEMAND A REFORM, A CLEANSING AND REAL PURIFICATION OF THE TOP MANAGER OF THE CHURCH IF WE WANT IT TO BE CLEAN AND CLEAR IN FRONT OF THE WORLD. ALSO BECAUSE THE BELIEVERS KNOW THAT A CERTAIN JESUS CHRIST MAY RETURN "AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT" AND ASK AN EXPLANATION TO THE "MONEY-CHANGERS IN THE TEMPLE".
GIORGIO BONGIOVANNI
IOR, THE SILENCE OF THE VATICAN
The Public Prosecutor of Rome sent three rogatory letters, between 2002 and 2008, to the papal court. They were necessary to reconstruct the flow of Mafia money?s transactions on some secret IOR accounts, the Institute for Religious Works. This is an investigation coming out from the case on the death of Roberto Calvi, the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, who was found hanged from the Black friars Bridge in London, in June 1982. And yet the Church does not reply.
THREE ROGATORIES ON MONEY-LAUNDERING, BUT THE HOLY SEE STILL DOES NOT REPLY
By Fabio and Francesco Viviano Tonacci
ROME -. A series of embarrassing questions for the Vatican are coming out from the investigation into the death of Roberto Calvi. Questions which have never been answered. A ten years silence now, that has pushed the Roman magistrate Luca Tescaroli, in charge for Calvi investigation, to write last December 16th, to the new minister of Justice, Paola Severino, asking to take action against the government of the Church and "urging the reply to the rogatory letters". A diplomatic pain in the neck" for the Italian government, caught between two needs: maintaining good relationships with the Vatican and yet sending concrete signals of fight against anti-money laundering and tax evasion.
Now it is worth answering in order to enter in the list of the "virtuous States" and to satisfy the Pope's request for a new transparency. Infact Pope Benedict XVI, in 2010, promulgated a law against money laundering: law 127/10. It states, in Article 41, that the newly formed Financial Intelligence Papal Authority "exchanges information on suspicious transactions and cooperates with the authorities of foreign countries that pursue the same purpose of preventing and combating money laundering". For now, it seems, only in words.
The Vatican was requested to release bank documents and confidential acts connected with the murky past of "God's banker", the same bank of Sindona and Calvi scandals, of the crack of Banco Ambrosiano, of the billions of dubious origins, which were hidden from tax authorities and shipped abroad under the direction of the Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, president of IOR from 1971 to 1989, who died in 2006.
The fact that Cosa Nostra has hidden some of its funds in the Banco Ambrosiano and in the IOR, is a reality well ascertained by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome, whose verdict of May 7th 2010 stated the absolution with full formula for Giuseppe "Pippo" Cal?, Ernesto Diotallevi and Flavio Carboni, charged with murder of Calvi. In this occasion, the Court wrote: "Cosa Nostra employed Banco Ambrosiano and the IOR as vehicles for massive money-laundering operations. The new fact was that also Vito Ciancimino (a former Mafia mayor of Palermo, who died in 2002) took part of it. Massimo Ciancimino himself, son of Vito, has repeatedly told about suspicious banking transactions and relationships between his father and high priests of the IOR. That is why the three rogatory letters, "never executed", took a further and new investigation interest.
Through the first one, dated 28th November 2002, the prosecutors asked the Vatican to "verify the financial flows in the period 1976-1982 " between IOR and a number of Italian and foreign banks as the Bank of Sicily, Sicilcassa di Palermo, Banco Ambrosiano (Italian and foreign branches), the Swiss Gotthard Bank and the network of companies linked to them in Peru, Argentina, Bahamas, Nicaragua, Luxembourg and Venezuela. It is asked not only that, but also to verify whether ?there are, in the registry of IOR?s customers, the names of people involved in the investigation" to identify "which were the companies related to the IOR in the period 1975-1982", "such as those involved in the buying up the shares of Banco Ambrosiano" and which were the operations attributable to the company Inecclesia (a Venezuelan financial company, ed.). "
In the second rogatory letter, dated 23 January 2004, the Italian judge asked to see the "Telex from Calvi on foreign transactions by using the material structures of the Vatican City". In the last one, the most recent one, dated 20th November 2008, aims to determine whether and when the two letters typed from Calvi few days before his death and directed to Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Pietro Palazzini, at that time prefect of the Holy Congregation for the Causes of Saints, has been received by the addressees. Letters from contradictory content and, according some people, not authentic, in which Calvi, scared and desperate, feeling "hunted", told in detail some "embarrassing" financial operations carried out undercover on behalf of the prelates.
http://inchieste.repubblica.it/it/repubblica/repit/2012/01/05/news/tre_rogatorie_sul_riciclaggio_ma_la_santa_sede_non_risponde-27639446/?inchiesta=%2Fit%2Frepubblica%2Frep
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE BANK OF GOD
From Sindona to Roberto Calvi
In May 2010, the Rome Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into the suspected relationships between the IOR and ten Italian banks, which include also the giant Unicredit and Intesa San Paolo, as well as more modest reality such as the Bank of Fucino. The Vatican institute is accused of using in a cumulative manner, without providing data to identify individuals who made money transactions, a bank account opened in the branch 204 of the former Banca di Roma (now Unicredit), in via della Conciliazione, near the Leonine city. Thus violating the money laundering legislation.
In two years, 180 million euros have been transferred on that account. The suspicion of the judiciary is that individuals with tax residence in Italy have used or still use the IOR as a "screen" to hide money coming from tax evasion or incomes from frauds. But everything stops because the Italian prosecutors have no jurisdiction to investigate the IOR without an international rogatory, because of its nature, which is formally foreign. On September 20th 2010, again the prosecution of the capital, on the Bank of Italy?s alert, ordered a writ of execution (not run) of 23 million euros deposited in an account at the Rome branch of Credito Artigiano SpA , opened in IOR?s name.
The suspicion is that even in this case the anti-money laundering rule was violated. Two transfer operations of 20 million to JP Morgan in Frankfurt and another three million to Banca del Fucino are the prosecutor?s target. They investigated the President of IOR, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, and the General Director Paolo Cipriani. "The Holy See - the Vatican stressed - expresses concern about the initiative of the Prosecutor of Rome, the necessary information is already available to the competent department of the Bank of Italy. About the mentioned amounts, these are operations of a transfer to the Treasury of non-Italian banks, addressed to the IOR itself. "
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WHEN THE BANKER OF GOD BECAME A 'DEAD MAN'
In 1947 he began his career at Banco Ambrosiano Veneto, the bank linked to the IOR. He had a career thanks to the connections with the P2 Masonic Lodge, Licio Gelli. That of Roberto Calvi is a story of banks and gangs that tragically ended on June 17th 1982 in London, when he was found hanging from the Blackfriars? Bridge. A first inquiry ruled his death a 'suicide'. In 1992, the case was reopened. In 1997 there was the first custody order, the following year forensic experts determined the hypothesis of suicide were unfounded. In 2005 the trial started. According to the prosecutor Luca Tescaroli there would be three motives behind the crime: the banker had mismanaged the money of Cosa Nostra, they feared revelations about the recycling system set up through the Banco Ambrosiano; by killing Calvi, it was thought to put more pressure to his ?partners?. In 2007 the Assize Court of Rome absolved all the defendants. In 2010, the sentencing is upheld on appeal. But in the motivation we read: "Roberto Calvi was murdered, he did not kill himself"
Calvi: "I paid bribes to the Church. I can not remain silent on so important facts".
On 20th November 2008, the magistrate Luca Tescaroli with a rogatory letter, asked to determine whether and when the two letters typed from Calvi, a few days before his death, have been received by the recipients. The letters written by the banker were addressed to Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Pietro Palazzini, at the time prefect of the Holy Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The content is contradictory. According to someone it is not authentic: Calvi, scared and desperate, feeling "hunted", told in detail some "embarrassing" financial operations carried out undercover on behalf of prelates.
THOSE 'FORGOTTEN ' ROGATORIES TO UNDERSTAND THE AMBROSIANO AND THE IOR
There are three rogatory letters for judicial assistance that the Prosecutor of Rome has sent to the Vatican without any reply. They are essential to reconstruct the flow of Mafia money transacted for money laundering purposes, on some secret accounts of the IOR, the Institute for Works of Religion. The first one is in 2002 (p. 2-7), the second one in 2004 (p. 8-11) and third one in 2008. The Roman magistrate Luca Tescaroli, who was in charge of the investigation into the murder of Roberto Calvi, on 16 December (p. 1), asked the new minister of Justice, Paola Severino to take action against the government of the Church.
English Sources:
http://www.nassauinstitute.org/articles/article512.php
http://www.offnews.info/verArticulo.php?contenidoID=34757
http://freemasonrywatch.org/gelli_probedcalvimurder.html
http://freemasonrywatch.org/stpeters_squared.html
http://www.tribune242.com/08092011_italianbank_news_pg1
