“Theft and disclosure of confidential information and documents”. This is the reason for the two arrests in the Vatican as part of the Gendarmerie investigations. According to the Askanews agency , they are a clergyman, Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda , and Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, respectively secretary andformer member of COSEA, the Commission responsible for the study and guidance on the organization of the Economic-Administrative Structures of the Holy See, established in July 2013 to screen the accounts of all the dicasteries and improve the overall management. (FRANCESCA CHAOUQUI AT THE PARIOLI THEATER. PHOTOS OF PIZZI) DETAILS
The prosecutor has “validated the arrest”. Chaouqui was released because “precautionary needs were no longer recognized, also because of her collaboration in the investigation”, adds Askanews . (FRANCESCA CHAOUQUI SEEN BY UMBERTO PIZZI) THE BOOKS
The reference and two volumes to be published soon, Via Crucis by Gianluigi Nuzzi and Avariziaby Emiliano Fittipaldi , who according to rumors should reveal some plots within the Holy See. THE VATICAN REACTION
Here is the Vatican’s reaction: The “books announced for the next few days”, starting with “confidential news and documents”, are “the result of a serious betrayal of the trust granted by the Pope and, as far as the authors are concerned, of an operation to take advantage of a gravely illicit act of delivery of confidential documentation “, said the Vatican, underlining that the Vatican prosecutor is reflecting on criminal actions with Italy and clarifying that” it is absolutely necessary to avoid the misunderstanding of thinking that this is a way to help the Pope’s mission ”. (FRANCESCA CHAOUQUI AT THE PARIOLI THEATER. PHOTOS OF PIZZI)TORNIELLI’S VERSION Andrea Tornielli on Vatican Insider explains the link between Chaouqui and Vallejo: “It was Vallejo, number two of the Prefecture destined to disappear with the reform of the Curia, who proposed and had Chaouqui included in the commission”. A reconstruction that follows that of Sandro Magister: “Given therefore that Francis did not personally know Francesca Chaouqui, who convinced the pope to appoint her in a role of such high responsibility
The most reliable hypothesis leads to Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, secretary of the prefecture economic affairs of the Holy See and from 18 July also secretary and factotum of the newly formed commission of which Francesca Chaouqui is a member ”, wrote the Vatican expert on his blog in August 2013.
Of Chaouqui, the Vaticanist of “La Stampa” recalls another detail: “The PR conversation with the journalist Denise Pardo, published on the« Espresso »website on 17 September 2013, appears significant in the light of today’s sensational turning point. he made it known that he had access “to the most confidential documents” and in that interview he also told of the friendship with the journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi “.
The role of the two within Cosea changed on March 3, 2014: “Instead of Vallejo, Francesco had appointed as number two of the Secretariat for the Economy his second personal secretary, the Maltese Alfred Xuereb, which the new Pope had “inherited” from his predecessor and who had served Ratzinger alongside Monsignor Georg Ganswein in the last period of his pontificate. In addition, five of the members of the COSEA commission – the Maltese Joseph FX Zahra, the French Jean-Baptiste de Franssu (who later became president of the IOR); the Spaniard Enrique Llano Cueto; Jochen Messemer from Germany and former Singapore foreign minister George Yeo. On the other hand, Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui was excluded ”, Tornielli explained. FRANCESCA CHAOUQUI SEEN FROM UMBERTO PIZZI THE PORTRAITS OF THE REPUBLIC
“La Chaouqui, a 32-year-old lobbyist, was the only woman among the eight members of the pontifical commission set up in 2013 by Pope Francis to rearrange the accounts of the Holy See. Monsignor Balda himself, a member of the priestly branch of Opus Dei, got her on the board. In her Twitter profile she defines herself as “Financial communicator in a jacket and jeans, busy leaving a trace and with her sleeves rolled up to build a just world”, reads the Repubblica .
Following the portrait of Monsignor Balda: “In the seminary at 8 years old. Pope Francis had called Monsignor Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, 54, to lead the Commission in July 2013. he Already at the age of 8 I entered the seminary in Logrono, where he completed his studies and came into contact with Opus Dei, which he still belongs. Graduated in spiritual theology at the faculty of the university of Burgos, he then took a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. At the age of 26 he was ordained a priest on 1 August 1987 in the diocese of Astorga. First parish priest, then diocesan treasurer – the youngest in all of Spain to occupy this role – Vallejo Balda, reported by the archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela,Agnes Ananasso .
