Vatican, Review: “Torzi capable of operating in opaque financial spheres”

“It must be considered that the conduct ascribed to the suspect are highly symptomatic of Torzi’s criminal capacity and the existence of a high risk of repetition of crimes of the same kind as those contested, a danger that can be inferred from the unscrupulousness and shrewdness with which he obtained the giving a very considerable sum of money and the skill and speed with which it was able to conceal its possession, taking advantage of its ability to operate in opaque financial and international spheres “. This is what the judges of the Rome Review write in the reasons for the decision with which last April 26 they confirmed the precautionary measure for the broker, accused in the investigation of the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office of self-laundering and issuing and annotating invoices for non-existent transactions. The broker had already been involved in the affair of the sale of the Sloane Avenue property in London for which he is under investigation by the Vatican Judicial Authority, which accused him of an illegal profit of 15 million euros. On the basis of the investigations delegated by the magistrates of piazzale Clodio, holders of the file, the deputy prosecutor Maria Teresa Gerace and the deputy prosecutor Rodolfo Sabelli, to the specialists of the Economic-Financial Police Unit, was rebuilt as part of the 15 million, reclaimed by two English companies of the Molise entrepreneur, would have been employed for the purchase of shares of companies listed on the Italian stock exchange, for an amount of over 4.5 million euros, which allowed him, after a few months, to achieve a gain of over 750,000 euros, and to pay off the debt of 670,000 euros of two other companies. “A further confirmation of the specific danger of the suspect – write the judges of the Review – is inferred from the findings of the Promoter in relation to previous speculative activities and reckless corporate takeovers committed in competition with Mincione himself, as well as from the charges for fraudulent bankruptcy” . “On the other hand – reads the reasons – also the choice of the most afflictive measure, appears necessary in relation to the concrete ability of the suspect to act also through international complicity and through intermediaries, and to prevent, for the same reasons, the concrete danger of probative pollution and must be considered adequate and proportionate to the enormous economic importance of the illicit profit from the crime, which makes it unforeseeable that the suspect could benefit from the suspension of the sentence “.