The Caltanissetta (Sicily) Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation in opposition to Giuseppe Pignatone, chief decide of the Vatican civil court, for having allegedly favored the mafia by forcing the closure of an investigation launched in 1992 following the homicide of judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone.
The murders of each Sicilian anti-mafia magistrates, one proper after the opposite, made them two of the most commemorated martyrs of Italy for his battle in opposition to organized crime. According to Italian media on the time, Pignatone – who was appointed president of the Vatican court in October 2019 – was then deputy prosecutor of Palermo and would have intervened to drive shut of a serious investigation in opposition to the mafia. The decide has declared himself harmless and has expressed his assist for cooperating with the investigation.
The occasions date again 32 years, when Borsellino opened an investigation into the attainable hyperlinks between two reputed Palermo mobsters, Antonino Buscemi and Francesco Bonura, and a monetary group led by Italian businessman Raul Gardini. The investigation prompt that the mafia bosses and Gardini’s enterprise pursuits had been concerned in a conspiracy to rig contracts on behalf of firms owned or linked to the mafia. However, the investigation was closed by the investigating decide shortly after it was launched.
Last September, Italy’s nationwide anti-mafia fee opened proceedings to make clear the case and has now pointed to the alleged maneuver of the Italian Justice of the Peace to shut the investigation. For the second, the Vatican has not made any touch upon this investigation in opposition to Pignatone.
