Vatican, Cardinal Parolin in Marogna witness list for trial that opens 27 July

There are also the cardinal of state Pietro Parolin, the former head of Telecom security, Giuliano Tavaroli, and former 007 among the texts that, according to what Adnkronos learns, the Cagliari manager Cecilia Marogna intends to call to testify in the trial. will open next July 27 in the Vatican. Having become known in the news as a “lady of the cardinal” for the fiduciary relationship that binds her to the former number two of the Secretariat of State Angelo Becciu, Marogna is accused by the Oltretevere judges of embezzlement in competition with the former Substitute in relation to 575 thousand euros paid to his company Logsic Doo by the secretariat of state for intelligence activities (among other things, the release of a kidnapped Colombian nun) and which, according to the Vatican magistrates, would instead have been spent on luxury goods. State secrecy was opposed on the matter, as emerges from the decree of the Vatican Court, with Becciu who on November 17, 2017 signed a document, on headed paper of the Secretariat of State, in which he stated “that he knew Mrs. Cecilia Marogna and that trust and esteem in you for the seriousness of your life and your profession “attesting that the manager from Cagliari provided” professional service as a geopolitical analyst and external relations consultant for the Secretariat of State – General Affairs Section “. Now Marogna, calling to testify personalities of the caliber of Parolin – in support of the documentation produced by his defensive college – evidently intends to demonstrate that his activity was known both in the Vatican and in intelligence. In particular, in an email sent on December 20, 2018 to Parolin (Becciu had left the post to the Secretariat of State the previous June), Marogna writes to the Secretary of State about it by Father Pier Luigi Maccalli, the missionary kidnapped on 17 September 2018 in Niger and released two years later in Mali. “Good morning Eminence, I’m sorry not to have had the opportunity to hear and meet you despite the e-mails and phone calls with highly sensitive and important objects – writes the woman in the email that Adnkronos was able to see – I would need at least to hear her on the phone and ask her for a little support for the Maccalli case, as well as better understanding the response on what we talked about in the meeting session “. Two months earlier, on 23 October 2018, Marogna had sent an email to the services, with the subject “Maccalli Analysis” in which, among other things, the case of the missionary was connected with the kidnapping of the Colombian nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti, kidnapped on 7 February 2017 in southern Mali. “As per the statistics of the cases of kidnapping handled in the area, it is assumed that even the ransom request for Maccalli will not arrive immediately from the kidnappers, as they are more likely to take a long time – wrote Marogna – For this reason I believe a strategic joint venture can be structured with the philanthropic organization which for some months has been conducting negotiations for the release of the Colombian nun “. And he added: “In this regard, my accredited sources suggest to put forward an economic proposal for the release of Maccalli in line with the one currently presented for the Colombian sister. I believe it is appropriate to build a parallel channel that can get in touch with the the only specialized negotiator authorized to mediate between the parties, by the jihadist groups of the Sahel area. The philanthropic structure has for some time consolidated the relationship with the negotiator who deals with taking over and delivering messages directly to terrorist groups, therefore , there is no supply chain that wastes or further profits on the negotiation of the release. We are now certain that government and military officials of the various African countries concerned are colluding in the system of kidnappings, so much so that they are now dealing with a real holding company for the kidnapping in person”. Another email on the subject that according to the Marogna defense board, coordinated by the international law expert Riccardo Sindoca, would be relevant for the manager’s position is the one sent to Parolin on 7 October 2020, in the days immediately following the first revelations. of the Hyenas on the Becciu case. “Dear Eminence, I hope you are well and will read this e-mail soon – wrote the manager – I am only now taking the initiative to write it because a person of my acquaintance, and, as he himself urged me in recent days, is discreetly close to a member of his entourage, therefore, he was entrusted with the task of delivering his request to meet me to speak directly about the operation I implanted, carried out and brought to the achievement of the goal, concerning the 3 people detained in the Sahel. He also specified to me that both you and His Holiness are aware of the work I have done, and also of the fact that I have precisely reached the last stage of the situation: that is to say: various costs exclusively contextual to the recovery of people for the trip home “.” These days I was hit by a fuss raised against me for reasons that do not belong to me, as the lines above , qualify how I managed the tools to be able to carry out the functional process in the area of ​​interest “, continued the woman in the email to the Secretary of State, in which she claimed to have” reached the definition of the peaceful resolution of the 3 people in the last decade of August “, and explained that he had” immediately informed the leaders of the secret services of the last phase “,” having had no further news “. “I would not like to think of an attempted boycott, considering the time span that in that period soon raised the second part of the fuss”, underlined Marogna, concluding: “Having said that, I confirm my willingness to meet you to discuss on the management of the last phase of the African resolution “. In the reply of the following 11 October, Parolin however took time:” Dear Mrs. Marogna, Thank you for your e-mail of 7 October last, of which I took note with any attention. Regarding your request for a meeting, however, I am not able for the moment to meet you “.