Today will be a day of interrogations for Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the former banker of the ior who will present, assisted by the lawyer Fabio Palazzo, on capital flows transiting from the Holy See to Italian and foreign banks, to avoid anti-money laundering.
At the center of the investigation there are ben 47 folders, seized two weeks ago, which will be analyzed in detail. They contain thousands of papers scrupulously archived in recent years by Gotti Tedeschi.
They concern his past at the top of the IOR, but also of Banco Santander, a period during which he had relationships with the upper floors of some companies of the Finmeccanica Group for contracts and loans.
More than once Gotti Tedeschi has asked to be received by the Pope, a request that - for now - is being denied.
The attention of the magistrates, who proceed for money laundering, is focused on numbered accounts to hide the identity of the owners: politicians, entrepreneurs, fixers in various capacities who have hidden their capital, then withdrawing large sums to avoid being traced.
In a memorandum also addressed to the pope, Gotti Tedeschi recalls that the conflicts with the General Manager Paolo Cipriani and the Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone began when the former banker asked for clarifications regarding the encrypted accounts.
Jp Morgan also declared that it was unable to endorse some transactions, with reference to the movements that took place on an account opened at the Milan branch in 2009 through which large sums have passed (there is even talk of income and outgoings of around one billion a year) without get real information about holders and managers of the deposit.
All this despite requests for clarification from the UIF, the Financial Investigation Office of the Bank of Italy.
The Neapolitan prosecutors are dealing with the issue concerning the loans granted by Banco Santander to the companies of the Finmeccanica group.
Numerous wiretaps attached to the investigation documents demonstrate the close relationship that existed between Gotti Tedeschi and the top management of Finmeccanica, and the banker will have to provide explanations on this: they suspect bribes for the achievement of procurement and shop assistants.
