Regarding the acquisition of the London property, the text indicates that between 2013 and 2014, $200,500,000 were illicitly used, “which amounts to approximately a third of the assets at the time of the Secretariat of State,” “at the request” of the cardinal.
In the case of the transfer to Cáritas Ozieri, the Court explains that “although the final destination” is lawful – according to the lawyers it was to reactivate a local bakery and for the Ciudadela de la Caridad project – “the disbursement of the funds by of the Secretary of State constituted, in this case, an illicit use of the same, constituting the crime of embezzlement.”
The statement indicates that the 125,000 euros were “actually allocated to the SPES cooperative, of which brother Antonio Becciu was president, a fact that the cardinal had denied.