(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 29 - The Financial Times on Tuesday
reported that the Vatican invested another £100 million in
London properties while Cardinal Angelo Becciu was the
Substitute of its Secretariat of State in addition to a
controversial 350-million-euro investment in a building in
Chelsea in 2014 that is at the centre of an investigation.
Pope Francis forced the 72-year-old to step down from the helm
of the Holy See department that oversees sainthoods last week.
Becciu said he was not ousted in relation to the London
operation but for alleged misappropriation regarding the use of
Church money in Sardinia and for allegedly favouring activities
run by his brothers.
He said he is innocent.
The FT said the documents it has seen regarding a portfolio of
ultra-prime flats in Knightsbridge did not reveal any
wrongdoing. (ANSA).
Vatican invested £100mn in London flats under Becciu- FT
Newspaper says documents don't suggest wrongdoing