There is a new email address that is already at the center of monitoring, attention and anxiety. It is the latest blow to Pope Francis' internal corruption, the most difficult to identify, located between the folds of administration and the many gardens where abuses of office and other administrative offenses could be committed. For a few days now, anyone can send reports to the General Auditor's Office at segnalazionianomalie@urg.va, as long as they are accompanied by indications of facts or circumstances potentially relevant to criminal law. Anonymous ones are excluded. The measure wanted by Pope Francis aims to highlight 'anomalies in the use or allocation of financial or material resources; irregularities in the granting of contracts or in the conduct of transactions or disposals; acts of corruption or fraud'.
From building doormen, to simple workers, from officials, to the top. No worker or employee in the curia is excluded from the possibility of becoming a 'whistleblower', author of blows capable of reaching rotten apples. Since the Pope was elected, the war against corruption has been a constant of his and this move certainly goes in that direction. 'Reports can therefore concern improper behaviors that represent a threat or damage to the common good. Among these behaviors may include, by way of example and not exhaustively: accounting irregularities, false statements; as well as behaviors aimed at obstructing the presentation of reports, violating the related obligations of office secrecy or discriminating against the reporter' is written in the text.
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Not only. 'The reported information can relate to facts that have occurred or are likely to be verified'. In addition, there must be good reasons 'in light of the circumstances and information they have at the time of the report, that the facts they report are true'. The blows, however, exclude personal aspects, immoral behaviors or claims that fall within the employment relationships between subordinates and superiors.
The authors of the blows are certain to remain anonymous and protected. 'The identity of the person making a report can only be revealed to the Vatican judicial authority when the latter, with a reasoned decision, affirms the need for it for investigative or judicial activity'. The Vatican has specified that the practice of blowing is regularly provided for by UN procedures, in particular by the UN Convention against Corruption to which the Holy See adhered in 2016.
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