Vatican arrests Italian middleman
over London property deal
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| Headquarters of the Vaticaan Gendarmerie Corps |
The arrest warrant was issued at the end of the
interrogation by the Vatican’s Promotor of Justice.
By Vatican News
The Vatican’s Gendarmerie police on Friday arrested an
Italian middleman who was part of a controversial property deal in London
involving the Vatican.
“Today the Office of the Promoter of Justice of the Vatican
Court, at the end of the interrogation of Mr. Gianluigi Torzi, who was assisted
by his personal lawyers, issued an arrest warrant against him,” the Holy See
Press Office said in a statement on Friday.
“The order, signed by the Promoter of Justice, Prof. Gian
Piero Milano, and his Adjutant, Advocate Alessandro Diddi, was issued in
relation to the well-known events connected with the sale of the London
property on Sloane Avenue, which involved a network of companies in which some
officials of the Secretariat of State were present,” the Press Office said.
Torzi has been “charged with various counts of
extortion, embezzlement, aggravated fraud and money laundering, crimes for
which the Vatican Law provides for sentences of up to twelve years
imprisonment.”
At present, Torzi is being detained in the barracks of the
Gendarmerie Corps.
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