Castle - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:53:09 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Castle - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pontifical council chief dropped from fraud probe https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/09/25/pontifical-council-head-dropped-from-fraud-probe/ Thu, 24 Sep 2015 19:09:12 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=77058 The head of the Pontifical Council for the Family has been dropped from a criminal investigation into a real estate deal. An Italian judge ruled Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia was completely uninvolved in a scheme to buy a 14th-century castle and then re-sell it at a profit. The judge made the decision after a public prosecutor's Read more

Pontifical council chief dropped from fraud probe... Read more]]> The head of the Pontifical Council for the Family has been dropped from a criminal investigation into a real estate deal.

An Italian judge ruled Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia was completely uninvolved in a scheme to buy a 14th-century castle and then re-sell it at a profit.

The judge made the decision after a public prosecutor's office filed a motion to dismiss the archbishop from the investigation.

Archbishop Paglia described the judge's decision as "deeply satisfying".

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Pontifical council chief dropped from fraud probe]]> 77058 Pontifical Council for Family head under investigation https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/06/02/pontifical-council-for-family-head-under-investigation/ Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:09:04 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=72104 The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family is under investigation by Italian authorities for alleged financial irregularities. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is being investigated in connection with the sale of the historic San Girolamo castle four years ago. Two employees of Paglia's former diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia have been arrested. Prosecutors are probing Paglia on Read more

Pontifical Council for Family head under investigation... Read more]]> The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family is under investigation by Italian authorities for alleged financial irregularities.

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is being investigated in connection with the sale of the historic San Girolamo castle four years ago.

Two employees of Paglia's former diocese of Terni-Narni-Amelia have been arrested.

Prosecutors are probing Paglia on allegations of criminal conspiracy and fraud in relation to the sale of the castle to real estate company IMI immobiliare, which was headed by one of the arrested diocese employees.

Diocese funds were allegedly used illegally and money was found to be missing from those funds.

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