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Becciu's Marogna money was to handle press, claims Chaouqui

Francesca Chaouqui has claimed that Cardinal Becciu paid a private intelligence firm to “monitor and intervene” with the press, not to negotiate the release of a captured religious sister.

The Pillar
Mar 13, 2023
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Becciu's Marogna money was to handle press, claims Chaouqui

Francesca Chaouqui, the woman at the center of the 2015 Vatileaks scandal, has claimed that Cardinal Becciu paid hundreds of thousands of euros to a UK private intelligence firm to “monitor and intervene” with the press for him, and not to negotiate the release of a captured religious sister, as he has claimed.

In an interview with the Italian newspaper …

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