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...Others involved in the complex series of real estate dealings were also convicted, including Gianluigi Torzi, whom the Vatican had later asked to help it acquire full control of the building....
...valuations over at the Vatican....
...Real estate prices have soared in Ayodhya, located in the Hindi heartland and Uttar Pradesh state, a BJP stronghold....
...In the 18th and 19th centuries, micro-mosaicists stuck minuscule fragments of stone or marble — inspired by floors at the Vatican — on to furniture or Grand Tour trinkets....
...During the Vatican’s eight-year ownership of the building, the value of high-end London offices has risen fast, and the lossmaking sale has raised eyebrows among the capital’s top estate agents....
...With the monarchy in crisis, Louis XVI summoned the Estates General — the future national assembly — to break the deadlock on reform....
...Last year, they provided testimony to a complaint to the Vatican by former Opus Dei members....
...In the mid-1980s, even the Vatican installed a Bloomberg terminal....
...However, he did not address questions from the FT about donations being used as collateral for loans used to fund investments such as the real estate development....
...estate market . . ....
...Belfast’s Falls Road had a faith demographic Vatican City might envy. Catholicism was omnipresent....
...Smart reads Ungodly returns A Vatican-backed impact firm promised to connect celebrities and deep-pocketed investors to the world’s most pressing issues, from climate change and poverty to refugee crises...
...To plug the gap it has said it will use money from its reserves, the exact size of which are unknown and encompass vast real estate holdings around the world and other investments controlled by APSA, its...
...The Vatican has never made the size of its financial reserves public, which encompass vast real estate holdings around the world and other investments controlled by APSA, its sovereign wealth manager....
...When the Vatican put its Knightsbridge office up for sale this year, it attracted more than 10 bidders....
...Pope Francis has stripped the Vatican’s powerful central administration office of an investment portfolio worth hundreds of millions of euros following a scandal linked to luxury London real estate development...
...He personally authorised the London real estate investment, people directly involved said....
...Vatican cardinal goes on trial Giovanni Angelo Becciu will become the first cardinal to face trial for financial crimes in the Vatican’s criminal court today....
...One of the Vatican’s most powerful cardinals has resigned suddenly amid an ongoing investigation into the suspected misuse of Catholic charitable funds for investments in luxury London real estate....
...Becciu (pictured below) attracted attention last year when Vatican authorities launched an investigation into a specific London real estate investment he oversaw in 2014 with Catholic charitable funds....
...A UK-based businessman charged with fraud for his role brokering the Vatican’s purchase of a luxury London building provided a loan to the seller of the property months before the real estate deal took place...
...in what a short press release called an “investigation into financial and real estate investments by the Secretariat of State”....
...The raid had been “undertaken pursuant to the investigation into financial and real-estate investments by the Secretariat of State”, the Vatican said in a statement on Tuesday....
...charitable funds for investments in luxury London real estate....
...provided a loan to the seller of the property months before the real estate deal took place....
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