The Spanish justice has rejected the accusations of unfair administration, coercion and revelation of secrets made by the former Schismatic Methods of Belorado against the Pontifical Commissioner, Mons. Mario Iceta.
An order from the First Instance and Instruction Court No. 1 of Briviesca, communicated this Friday, has ordered “the dismissal and archive of the criminal case” initiated by the former Clean religious who were excommunicated after supporting a sedevacantist manifesto last year.
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The denunciation of these ex -religious dates back to the month of July 2024, which was dismissed within a few months, according to the criteria expressed by the Fiscal Ministry, which considered that the facts denounced lacked criminal relevance.
The Schismatic Group resorted to the decision to the Provincial Court of Burgos, which attended its request in March 2025 and forced the cause to reopen. Therefore, last May the Pontifical Commissioner was summoned to declare about the three alleged crimes attributed to him: unfair administration, coercion and revelation of secrets.
Regarding unfair administration, as detailed In a statementThe Auto affirms that the appointment of Mons. Iceta Gavicagogeascoa as Pontifical Commissioner “was correctly registered in the Registry of Religious Entities of the Ministry of Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts” and, therefore, “there can be no unfair administration in whom the legitimate administrator of the assets is.”
In addition, it is underlined that the Pontifical Commissioner “has been paying the payrolls of workers who have requested it directly, as well as the expenses and receipts of the monasteries, except those that correspond to the complainants for the exercise of their work activities, such as the payment of the quota of self -employed. Not deducting from their administration anywhere. Pontifical ”.
The exmonjas also denounced by coercion after the commissioner sent to change a key in one of the monasteries occupied by the community in July 2024, located in Derio. “The car states that no crime of coercion has been committed because the ex -religious knew the existence of another entrance to the monastery,” says the commissioner’s office.
As for the alleged revelation of secrets, the Spanish justice determines that “there is no duty of confidentiality regarding the information that Mons. Mario Iceta knows as a pontifical commissioner” and explains that, in addition, “there is no professional relationship between the complainants and the Pontifical Commissioner, which cannot give the crime of revelation of secrets”.
It is not the first time that a court is right to the Pontifical Commissioner against the former religious. In June 2025, the Spanish justice rejected the claim of Bismatic Exmonjas of Belorado to transform its former ecclesiastical community into civil association and also attribute the full domain over monasteries.
Nicolás de Cárdenas
Born in 1980, I am a Spanish and journalist’s husband and father with more than 20 years of experience in print and digital media, specialized in socio -political and religious information. I have worked more than 10 years in defense of human rights and I have accreditations in journalism and comprehensive communication. Since July 2022, I am a correspondent for ACI Press and Ewtn News in Spain, covering international events of the Catholic Church.