Vatican Bank IOR said Friday the
removal of former deputy director-general Giulio Mattietti was
part of "normal physiological management affairs," saying "many
of the details published by the press are not correct".
Mattietti was removed and escorted out of the Vatican on
Monday, reportedly to preserve the integrity of documents and
computer files he may have wanted to take with him.
The IOR said "the measures emphasized by the media in these
days are fully legitimate" and said a failure to divulge them
was only aimed at "safeguarding those concerned".
It said it distanced itself from many details of recent media
reports.
On Thursday well-informed sources told ANSA the Vatican bank
had opened an internal probe into the activities of former
deputy director general Mattietti.
The sudden and drastic way he was removed was linked to the
need to make sure he would not remove documents, they said.
The probe will focus on those documents and on his computer
files, the sources said.
Mattietti's office at IOR has been closed, although it has
not been sealed off, the sources said.
IOR said Wednesday it had sacked Mattietti for so-far unknown
reasons.
The deputy head of the Vatican Press Office, Paloma Garca
Ovejero, told ANSA that Mattietti "ceased his service on Monday
November 27".
Mattietti was appointed in November 2015 along with
Director-General Gian Franco Mammi'.
Another IOR staffer was also sacked recently, sources said.
IOR, Istituto per le Opere Religiose (Institute for Religious
Works), has been through a process of reform recently.
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