"Helena Kennedy QC has written a powerful letter to Dominic Raab on what it means to be Lord Chancellor"
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"There is an ugly rumor that you have been given this role as the “hard nut” who will get rid of the Human Rights Act and take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights, cobbling together some home-grown protections."
- Helena Kennedy QC
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- Helena Kennedy QC
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Sea-Watch is a German non-governmental organisation that operates in the Mediterranean Sea, notably by commissioning ships to rescue migrants.
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sea-watch.org
"The sea rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 (with the suffix "powered by United4Rescue"), financed by the Protestant Church in germany (EKD), has been deployed under the direction of Sea-Watch since 2020."..
Romania again. 🤔
Let's continue ..
And get back to Doughty Street Chambers and the Clooney Foundation
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Lapo Elkann, grandson of Gianni Agnelli, at Villa d'Este, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Clooneys at the Vaticano 🍿👇
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The Clooneys at the Vaticano 🍿👇
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"Finance moves in mysterious ways, and one of them links the Vatican to the island of Malta. It has emerged that ..through a fund based in Valletta, the Secretariat of State became a partner in Lapo Elkann’s company, Italia Independent."..
"Another €10 million deal went through ..with Enrico Preziosi, games industrialist and chairman of Genoa. And over €4 million went to finance the production of films such as the latest “Men in Black” and the biography of Elton John, “Rocketman”."
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"These are just some of the many investments made using the offerings of the faithful to Peter’s Pence, but there are others..At 259 St Paul Street in Valletta, a stone’s throw from Pizzeria Vecchia Taranto, there is the headquarters of the Centurion Global Fund."..
"At least two-thirds of the capital entrusted to it, according to various and reliable sources, comes from the Secretariat of State, in other words the Vatican’s most important department, and the one closest to Pope Francis."..
"The fund manager is an Italian resident in Switzerland, Enrico Crasso.. A former banker at Credit Suisse, and owner in Lugano of Sogenel Holding, which is a reference point for many financial transactions, he has managed the Vatican coffers for years.".
"For this he has received numerous formal letters of thanks from the Secretariat of State and has been awarded a gold medal of merit by the pope, not to mention millions of euros in commissions. .. in Malta he is still the one who decides where to invest the Pope’s money."🤔
"With the Centurion fund, Crasso has raised around €70 million..These are not always liquid assets, not always safe investments and are sometimes nothing short of speculative. One that particularly stands out is the stake in Lapo Elkann’s company"..🤔
"Italia Independent. The Maltese fund w/ Vatican capital has underwritten new shares at €2.35, holding a 25% stake with €6 million & Crasso has joined the board. Centurion has just decided to inject even more capital, despite a share price of €1.7 on the stock exchange." 22
"a few days before the scandal burst over the purchase of the Sloane Avenue building in London – an operation orchestrated by the financier Raffaele Mincione in which Crasso had a central role – the Secretariat finalized the Preziosi dossier."..
"For €10 million Centurion would acquire 14% of New Deal, a company to which Enrico Preziosi had just transferred 11.7% of Giochi Preziosi. It is as if Centurion were acquiring 1.67% of the toy group."..🤔
"the transfer was made from Banca Zarattini , Switzerland, on 30 Sept., and included the following clause: “The seller will take steps ... to have Preziosi listed on the stock exchange by 31 Dec. 2020 in order to allow the company to benefit from the proceeds of the operation”"
"Crasso also has his eyes on water. Centurion invested €4.7 million in the vehicle Cristallina Holding which took over Acqua Pejo and Goccia di Carnia, together with other Italian partners such as the holding company of the BORROMEO family."
"But the new economy is not neglected either. 🍿
In October 2018 Centurion acquired 10% of Abbassalebollette, a start-up that offers internet services to save on electricity and gas bills"..
In October 2018 Centurion acquired 10% of Abbassalebollette, a start-up that offers internet services to save on electricity and gas bills"..
"If it goes wrong, in the Vatican they will be able to ask for explanations from the president of SNAM, Luca Dal Fabbro, who has important contacts in the papal secretariat. Abbasalebollette belongs to his family." 🤔
"Then there is real estate. For €16 million Centurion took over the Italian headquarters of the Swiss-Swedish giant ABB. Today it is the fund’s largest investment."..
"Another €4.5 million went on the bonds of a small Roman company, Bdm Costruzioni e Appalti of the Marronaro family,which is thought to have used it to take over Immobiliare Grotta 1973 owned by the Ceribelli-Barluzzi families."
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Antonio Barluzzi
Antonio Barluzzi is known as an architect but for many years he thought about entering a seminary. I...
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La storia di una famiglia in una tenuta romana
A ll’inizio di questo romanzo familiare nella Roma ancor papalina c’è Francesco, figlio di Pietro Pa...
The US is the single largest donor to Peter's Pence.
Cardinal Raymond Burke at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Wisconsin 🤔
Cardinal Raymond Burke at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Wisconsin 🤔
2022
"An order for an Italian man’s extradition to stand trial on Vatican-linked fraud charges in Italy has been discharged by the High Court. Gianluigi Torzi was accused of laundering €15m he had allegedly extorted from the Vatican.."
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"An order for an Italian man’s extradition to stand trial on Vatican-linked fraud charges in Italy has been discharged by the High Court. Gianluigi Torzi was accused of laundering €15m he had allegedly extorted from the Vatican.."
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"in a high-value London property deal."
Ben Cooper KC
Ben Cooper KC is Joint Head of the Extradition Team, Doughty Chambers
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Ben Cooper KC
Ben Cooper KC is Joint Head of the Extradition Team, Doughty Chambers
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"The subject of simultaneous prosecutions in both the Vatican City State and in Rome, Mr. Torzi was invited to help the Vatican complete its purchase of no. 60 Sloane Avenue in Chelsea for a reported €350m."..
"Although the Vatican agreed to and paid him €15m for his services on legal advice, it later claimed that this had in fact been an act of extortion. The Italian courts accused Mr. Torzi of laundering this fee in various investments in Italy."..
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"Represented in extradition proceedings by Ben Cooper QC and Malcolm Hawkes, Mr. Torzi argued that there was no basis to allege any extortion: the Vatican had freely entered into an agreement with him to broker the property deal"..
"It was argued that without a ‘predicate’ criminal offence of extortion in the Vatican, there could be no laundering offence committed in Italy and no basis for extradition."..
"In earlier restraint proceedings at the Southwark Crown Court, which the Vatican sought to keep secret, HHJ Baumgartner sharply criticised the Vatican’s chief prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi for material non-disclosure and making ‘appalling’ misrepresentations"..
"..he found the Vatican’s overall conduct had been so egregious that any restraint order issued against Mr. Torzi would make a mockery of the process." 🤔
"On 1 February 2022, the Tribunal of Rome quashed the arrest warrant which formed the basis for the extradition request leading to his discharge in the UK."
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"In Italy v Torzi, Ben Cooper QC and Malcolm Hawkes were instructed by James Mullion of Janes Solicitors and Francesco Meduri of Fidlaw Solicitors"
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Francesco Meduri studied Law at the University of Messina, Sicily
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Founded in 1548 by Pope Paul III, it was the world's first Jesuit college
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Founded in 1548 by Pope Paul III, it was the world's first Jesuit college
Before that , Meduri attended the LICEO SCIENTIFICO LEONARDO DA VINCI (Reggio Calabria)
That's the same region that the 'Ndrangheta come from.
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
There's another Meduri that comes from that region:
an Italian politician , Luigi Meduri
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On 22 January 1999 he became president of the Calabria Region
an Italian politician , Luigi Meduri
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On 22 January 1999 he became president of the Calabria Region
2015 article:
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"Anas investigation: 10 arrests, there is also Meduri, former president of the Calabria region and lawyer from Catanzaro"
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"Anas investigation: 10 arrests, there is also Meduri, former president of the Calabria region and lawyer from Catanzaro"
"The Financial Police is executing a series of precautionary custody orders issued by the investigating judge of the Rome court against Anas.. Also involved in the investigation were some entrepreneurs, owners of companies that won contracts for important public works,& lawyers."
"The names of those arrested
Antonella Accroianò, Oreste De Grossi, Sergio Lagrotteria, Giovanni Parlato, Antonino Ferrante, Eugenio Battaglia, Concetto Bosco Logiudice, Francesco Costanzo, Giuliano Vidoni and the former undersecretary Luigi Meduri"
Antonella Accroianò, Oreste De Grossi, Sergio Lagrotteria, Giovanni Parlato, Antonino Ferrante, Eugenio Battaglia, Concetto Bosco Logiudice, Francesco Costanzo, Giuliano Vidoni and the former undersecretary Luigi Meduri"
"Among the people involved in the investigation, the lawyer of the Catanzaro bar, Eugenio Battaglia ..Battaglia, well known in the city, defended the businessman Salvatore Mazzei from Lamezia, accused of having relations with the 'ndrangheta"
"and is assisting the family of the lawyer Ciriaco Torquato killed in Lamezia in a mafia ambush. Recently, the defender of the former policeman Giovanni Aiello, the alleged "monster face" investigated by the Caltanissetta Prosecutor's Office, was appointed."
"The former undersecretary Luigi Meduri was "a shadowy fixer" and political interface of the 'black lady', the Anas director Antonella Accroglianò, considered by investigators to be at the top of the organization within Anas."
"Meduri would have acted as an intermediary between Accroglianò and 2 entrepreneurs from Catania - Concetto Bosco Lo Giudice and Francesco Costanzo - who would have delayed the payment of a bribe. ."
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#Palermo 🤔
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#Palermo 🤔
"The President of the Region Mario Oliverio, given the judicial operation involving the company "Tecnis" for the alleged serious offenses linked to contracts awarded by Anas, wrote to the Prefects of Reggio Calabria and Cosenza."..
"Oliverio asked to "verify the existence of any implications that could concern the procedures for awarding the construction works of the new hospitals of Palmi and Sibaritide, carried out by the company "Tecnis"."
"Anas will appear in court as the offended party against the managers and officials accused of corruption. The company, declares president Gianni Vittorio Armani "is actively collaborating in the investigations of the Guardia di Finanza"
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""I believe that those who corrupt or allow themselves to be corrupted do not only steal points from growth but also steal a piece of Italy's future". The Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said ..regarding the investigation into Anas bribes."
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