The process also investigated the delivery of 570,000 euros that the Vatican department made to Cecilia Marogna, an expert in international geopolitics, to supposedly use them in hostage rescue operations, such as the case of Sister Cecilia Narváez, a Colombian nun kidnapped in Mali.
Although the cardinal affirmed that the Pope was aware of this operation, Diddi pointed out that Francis had not authorized the delivery of the money to the woman, “but to the British company Inkerman”, in charge of mediating to free the Colombian nun.
Throughout the process the cardinal defended his innocence, and part of his lawyers’ strategy was to distort the testimony of Mons. Alberto Perlasca, head of the Administrative Office of the Secretariat of State during the administration of Cardinal Becciu, due to the contradictions in which he had fallen.