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Vatican Laundered Bribe To Convict Reformist Cardinal?

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Adding to the dense murky fog swirling around the Holy See’s finances, Australian financial authorities have finally identified a gap of $2 million between actual money transfers from the Vatican to Australia and what can be accounted for.

A credible rumor suggests that the secret funds were used for bribes to secure a conviction of Cardinal Pell, who was appointed to the Secretariat for the Economy in 2014 and wished to reform Vatican finances.

It has been alleged that Cardinal Becciu, dismissed late in 2020 by Pope Francis for financial irregularities that included embezzlement charges against his assistant, might be behind the payment. Becciu opposed Pell’s reforms.

This is how many Italian papers have portrayed the affair. But, since Francis is a corrupt, worldly politician who promotes the Green agenda more than he preaches the Gospel of Jesus, this is unlikely to be the whole story.

Francis’ decision in December 2020 to take over Vatican finances sounds less like cleaning up the place than it does putting whatever was going on into his direct control to keep the dirt out of the public eye, says Gizadeathstar’s Joseph Farrell:

“In other words, Francis has moved the Vatican Bank from the Secretariat of State, normally headed by an archbishop or a cardinal archbishop, to the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, in other words, placing the bank directly, for the first time in its chequered history, under the Pope. To draw a somewhat clumsy analogy, this is akin to President Kennedy’s National Security Action Memorandum, that removed the CIA from oversight of covert operations, and placed those operations directly under the military, i.e., directly under the chain of command ending in the Presidency. In effect, what Francis has done is to move the whole “hidden system of finance” that is the Vatican Bank, a participant in that global “hidden system” that I’ve speculated about for so long, and placed it directly under papal control.

It might be argued that this was the only way to deal with the bank, to gain any measure of real oversight or transparency in the institution.

But I suspect it augurs something entirely different, and far more ominous, namely, the final capture of the papacy by ‘the high financial cabal’. “

 

 

ITALY-GATE: Leonardo Tied To Bribes, Chinese Covid Contracts

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The pieces of the Italygate puzzle are falling together in short order.

Maria Zack’s investigation tied the Italian part of the election hack to the German part.

She showed that when Trump voters broke the algorithm in play on election night November 3, the new algorithm was transferred on request from a US State Department official in Rome through a satellite leased by the Vatican from Leonardo company in Rome to  Scytl’s backup servers in Frankfurt and thence to Dominion Voting Systems back in the USA.

However, it wasn’t clear how or why Leonardo might be tied to the Chinese end of the hack. Chinese IP addresses as well as Iranian and other IP’s were found on forensic analysis of computers used in the election.

Now comes news of a bribery scheme over Chinese masks in which the Italian government has charged one Mario Benotti, chief of a public-private research unit devoted to medical electronics for use in such things as disaster management and also a journalist with strong relationships with the Vatican, US and Italian universities and bodies concerned with climate change and renewable energy.

Now, get this:

Benotti has very close ties to Leonardo, a part of Finmeccanica Group.

Leonardo is already under investigation for money-laundering, through Google payment platforms [some of whom are also targets of the investigation].

Meanwhile, the massive criminal trial of the ‘Ndrangheta is revealing its profound interpenetration of business and bureaucracies in Italy and elsewhere and its reliance on drug and human trafficking and the laundering of proceeds from that. The Vatican bank has been implicated in money laundering and there are rumors of ties between the ‘Ndrangheta and the Vatican.

No doubt there is a Leonardo tie there as well.

Now comes the Benotti connection to the Covid scamdemic.

Disaster management has from the incept been one of the most lucrative ways in which taxpayer money is redistributed to private contractors. Among disasters, a world- wide plague has repeatedly been war- gamed by the globalists in their end run for totalitarian global government because it ties in perfectly with their propaganda that human beings must be controlled in order to stem the ecological damage which enables increasingly dangerous plagues.

The Covid panic is thus intimately tied to the Climate agenda that Pope Francis has powerfully endorsed. Covid forces public to private redistribution of wealth at lightning speed using a global medical emergency as the pretext.

That redistribution would be considerably ramped up if the false Catholic and corrupt Chinese tool Joe Biden became president.

That is why it is on a  server leased by the Vatican at a defense contractor in Rome that the election theft in favor of Biden hinges:

In The News reports:

The Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s financial crime unit, has opened an investigation into a bribe scheme involving a 1.2 billion Euro deal with China for the acquisition of face masks at the height of the Covid19 pandemic in that country last year. Italian authorities accuse plotters of pocketing 12 million euros in illicit commissions in exchange for contracts given to the Chinese for the masks.

The accusations were so serious in fact, that Italy’s Protezione Civile or Civil Protection Agency’s headquarters were raided last month. (Protezione Civile is loosely-akin to the U.S.’ Federal Emergency Management Agecy or FEMA.)

At the heart of the scandal is Mario Benotti, the head of OPTEL, a public-private research consortium in the field of advanced electronics in the medical, civil and military arenas. As head of the group, Benotti has had close ties with Leonardo SpA, Italy’s billioin-dollar defense contractor.

Benotti has denied any wrongdoing, however. He issued the following statement to the Italian Journalist Agency or AGI, (translated):

“I made myself available to the country at a very difficult time. It was March, Italy was in lockdown. Masks and respirators were missing. People died like flies. I did it as an entrepreneur and taking advantage of my personal friendships that have nothing to do with either the politicians in the government or with those of the opposition,” he said.

“Since I am president of a public private consortium that has relationships all over the world, I made myself available to help find the masks that Italy did not have…if there were better offers than ours, they could have chosen to contact them,” he added.

Leonardo is currently at the center of allegations that equipment owned and operated by the firm was used to facilitate interference in the Nov. 4 U.S. presidential election.

The timing of the opening of the face mask investigation is notable because it was the very next day that Leonardo SpA personnel were arrested on suspicions of hacking sensitive military data on Leonardo’s network.

One of those arrested was Arturo D’Elia, the whistleblower who says he is in possession of evidence of the election interference plot. News of the plot broke in Italian media four days before D’Elia was arrested for the suspected hacking.

The face-mask investigation is also notable in light of last week’s announcement that Guardia di Finanza is investigating another alleged commission-kickback scheme, this one directly involving Leonardo SpA as well as U.S. tech giant Google.

Google is accused of facilitating the illicit movement of funds to Italy that were paid as bribes, according to authorities.

Maria Zack, Chairwoman of NationsInAction.org, a government accountability organization, alleges SpyGate and ItalyGate have been funded with the help of $400 million secretly funneled to Italy in the waning days of the Obama administration.”

Hitler’s Pope And The Serbian Holocaust

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The little known slaughter of Orthodox Christians, Jews, and Roma in Yugoslavia at the hands of Nazi-sponsored Croatian leadership had the full approval of the Catholic pope and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

“During the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Catholic priests and Muslim clerics were willing accomplices in the genocide of the nations Serbian, Jewish and Roma population. From 1941 until 1945, the Nazi-installed regime of Ante Pavelic in Croatia carried out some of the most horrific crimes of the Holocaust (known as the Porajmos by the Roma), killing over 800,000 Yugoslav citizens – 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews and 26,000 Roma. In these crimes, the Croatian Ustasha and Muslim fundamentalists were openly supported by the Vatican, the Archbishop of Zagreb Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac (1898-1960), and the Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. Many of the victims of the Pavelic regime in Croatia were killed in the war’s third largest death camp – Jasenovac, where over 200,000 people – mainly Orthodox Serbs met their deaths. Some 240,000 were “rebaptized” into the Catholic faith by fundamentalist Clerics in “the Catholic Kingdom of Croatia” as part of the policy to “kill a third, deport a third, convert a third” of Yugoslavia’s Serbs, Jews and Roma in wartime Bosnia and Croatia (The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican, Vladimar Dedijer, Anriman-Verlag, Freiburg, Germany, 1988).

On April 6th 1941, Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia. By April 10th, Croatian fascists led by Ante Pavelic were allowed by Hitler and his ally Mussolini to set up a “independent” puppet state of Croatia. Hitler granted “Aryan” status to Croatia as his fascist allies carved up Yugoslavia. Pavelic had been awaiting these developments whilst under the auspices of Mussolini in Italy who had granted them the use of remote training camps on a Aeolian island and access to a propaganda station Radio Bari for broadcasts across the Adriatic. As soon as the new fascist state of Croatia was born, and campaign of cold-blooded terror began, as noted by John Cornwell in his book Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (Viking, London, UK, 1999):

“(It was) an act of ‘ethnic cleansing’ before that hideous term came into vogue, it was an attempt to create a ‘pure’ Catholic Croatia by enforced conversions, deportations, and mass exterminations. So dreadful were the acts of torture and murder that even hardened German troops registered their horror. Even by comparison with the recent bloodshed in Yugoslavia at the time of writing, Pavelic’s onslaught against the Orthodox Serbs remains one of the most appalling civilian massacres known to history” (p 249)

Vatican Bank Being Investigated For Money Laundering

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From Newsmax comes a report that the head of the Vatican bank is being investigated for money-laundering. This is not the first time the the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), as it’s called, has come under suspicion for less than good deeds. It  was also involved in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal in 1982, a scandal that’s even found its way into pop culture (for eg. in The Da Vinci Code and in a recent TV drama).

“The head of the Vatican bank is under investigation for suspected money laundering and police have frozen 23 million euros ($30.21 million) of its funds, Italian judicial sources said on Tuesday. Neither Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who has been at the helm of the bank for a year, nor the Vatican spokesman would comment immediately on the case, which involves alleged violations of European Union money laundering regulations.

The sources said Gotti Tedeschi and another executive of the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), as the bank is officially known, had been put under investigation by Rome magistrates Nello Rossi and Stefano Fava.

The sources said Italy’s financial police had preventively frozen 23 million euros of the IOR’s funds in an account in an Italian bank in Rome.

Two recent transfers from an IOR account in the Italian bank were deemed suspicious by financial police and blocked.

One was a transfer of 20 million euros to a German branch of a U.S. bank and another of 3 million euros to an Italian bank.

Gotti Tedeschi, a devout Catholic who has taught financial ethics at the Catholic University of Milan, is a close adviser to Treasury Minister Giulio Tremonti.

He is currently also head of an Italian unit of the Spanish Banco Santander , according to its website, and serves on the board of several major Italian banks.”

Read the rest of this piece at Newsmax.com.

More details at Associated Press.