Pope Francis commissioner the San Pietro factory. A earthquake administrative and soon judicial with kidnapping of computers, acquisition of documents and changes at the top, on direct intervention by Pope Francis, who immediately appointed to his guide an extraordinary commissioner, Monsignor Mario Giordana, after receiving a report from the Auditor General.
A Vatican note reports that «a report from the offices of the Auditor General led, this morning, to the acquisition of documents and electronic devices at the technical and administrative offices of the Fabbrica di San Pietro. The latter operation was authorized by decree of the Promotor of Justice of the Court, Gian Piero Milan, and the added, Alessandro Diddi, after informing the Vatican Secretariat of State ».
The Fabbrica di San Pietro (in Latin Reverenda Fabrica Sancti Petri), which oversees the management of all the works necessary for the construction and artistic construction of the Basilica of San Pietro in the Vatican, was chaired by the cardinal from 5 February 2005 Angelo Comastri, archpriest of the Basilica and vicar general of the Pope for Vatican City, while the delegate was the bishop monsignor Vittorio Lanzani.
I doubts about the management of contracts they had been raised some time ago precisely on the works of the Dome, in particular the restoration of the drum, an intervention that on the construction site provides for four years. Suspicions raised by the interim Auditor General, Alessandro Cassinis Righini. The irregularities relate in particular to invoices in some cases duplicated to contractors for services not provided for in the tender contract.
To bring the investigators of the Office of the Promoter of Vatican Justice to order the searches in the offices of the Factory also the repeated requests for clarifications formulated since last year by the Office of the General Auditor and the Secretariat of State to which the Office however, the administration did not respond. Only following insistent requests, the Auditor General would have examined the accounts of the works, finding what it had been like exceeded the authorized spending limit of 4 million.
A new case therefore in the Vatican, after the scandal of the London property that led to the arrest of the Molise broker Gianluigi Torzi (now free) and that could soon reveal other sensational news.
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