Publisher: Ediciones Martínez Roca
Theme: Religion | General religion
Human and social sciences | Journalism and communication | Investigative Journalism / Testimonials
Collection: MR Now
Translator: Bárbara Burani
Number of pages: 384
"Summer 2008. The journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi leaves Milan by car at dawn. Two forty-kilo suitcases await you on the other side of the border, in Ticino (Switzerland). The delivery was fast. The time to have coffee with an old peasant woman who, luckily, never went down to the basement of her house. There were more than four thousand unpublished documents contained in the suitcases. After returning to Italy, the work began ... Through the pages of this rigorous and exciting journalistic investigation we will find characters who held important positions of responsibility within the Vatican's finances and who betrayed the trust placed in them; we will assist in the founding of phantom associations against leukemia or to help poor children who were nothing more than mere covers; We will meet prelates through whose hands huge amounts of money passed without giving any kind of explanation about their final whereabouts; We will see financial operations backed by monsignors whose objective was to found a new center party in Italy, we will discover tax havens, double accounts ... All thanks to the thousands of documents that made up the secret archive of Monsignor Renato Dardozzi, one of the most important figures. important in the financial management of the Church from 1974 to the end of the nineties and one of the few ecclesiastics who had access to the meetings reserved for the closest collaborators of John Paul II."
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