(see related).
Information provided by the
Institute for Religious Works (IOR), the Vatican bank, allowed
investigators to "close the circle" in their probe of the 500
million euro fraudulent bankruptcy of the Divine Providence
nursing homes chain, judicial sources said Wednesday.
Replies supplied by the Holy See bankers allowed
investigators in Puglia to undertake "a more pregnant technical
examination" of financial flows through bank account data in
which assets of the Congregation of Divine Providence had been
hidden, the sources said.
Meanwhile it was disclosed that a Socialist MP, Raffaele
Di Gioia, also is among those under investigation in the probe
in addition to an NCD Senator and two nuns.
Finance police confiscated 32 million euros and a building
that the nuns were planning to turn into a private clinic in
Guidonia in Rome province.
The money and the building were held in the names of
parallel church orders run by nuns from the Divine Providence
congregation.
As much as 350 million euros of the total debts of half a
billion euros run up by the congregation were debts to the
Italian state.
The order also had a secret bank account in which
donations from the faithful were stashed.
Part of the money was used to finance a campaign for the
beatification by the Church of the founder of the order, Don
Uva, the sources said.
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