Vatican: Raids on curial official's home over luxury Chelsea property development
Remember when, on a papal flight , the Pope called it "good administration" to sink $220m of Peter's Pence money into a luxury property development in Chelsea, London? Well, it appears investigators in the Vatican disagree. Breaking news from CNA : Vatican official Monsignor Perlasca has been raided over the London property deal . Perlasca was the former head of the administrative office, First Section, Secretariat of State. CNA report: Vatican authorities have seized documents and computers belonging to a senior curial official as part of an investigation into financial misconduct, the Holy See announced on Tuesday. In a statement issued Feb. 18, the Vatican press office confirmed that investigators had raided the office and home of Msgr. Alberto Perlasca, the former head of the administrative office at the First Section of the Secretariat of State. The raid is part of an ongoing investigation into financial misconduct by officials at the secretariat. “This...