...Pell was asked to clean up Vatican finances and found rampant abuse and criminality. He called for an independent audit after meeting staunch resistance from Cardinal Becciu.
Cardinal Pell gets accused of pedophilia in Australia - an accusation with no credible merit, but one that nonetheless went on for years while they imprisoned him before he was ultimately found innocent.
Cardinal Pell’s financial investigations are halted in the meantime.
It has been thrown out that Becciu was influencing the attack on Pell in Australia to take him out of the way.
This is now being investigated.
Pope Francis asked Becciu to resign this past Fall when it was clear that a business deal over a London building was done illegally and brought great scandal. He was also “stripped of his cardinal hood”.
Pell stands vindicated, though he went through great trial. The Australian court system kept inexplicably finding him guilty as a sort of scapegoat for other transgressors until commons sense prevailed at the highest court which required no TV cameras in order to remove media pressure (of course, the media convicted him from the start).
Pell had no support from the Vatican.
Link: https://www.ncregister.com/news/cardinal-pell-surprised-by-technicolor-criminality-of-vatican-financial-scandals