Vatican says it has ‘no secrets’ in case of missing teenager

Orlandi’s kidnapping by unidentified men in Rome has been the subject of
intense speculation for three decades, with claims that it was connected to
blackmail and banking scandals involving the Holy See.

Rome prosecutors have alleged that “someone in the Vatican” knows
the fate of Orlandi, who was 15 years old when she disappeared.

One theory is that the girl’s father, a Vatican employee, had found documents
that connected the Vatican’s bank with organised crime in Rome and that she
was kidnapped in a bid to silence him.

The alleged mastermind of the kidnapping was Enrico “Renatino” De
Pedis, leader of a ruthless criminal gang known as the Magliana.

He was shot dead by rival gangsters in central Rome in 1990 and his body was
interred in a crypt in the Basilica of Sant’ Apollinare.

It has always been considered highly unusual for a known mafia criminal to
have been buried in a church where popes and cardinals are interred and
there is speculation that Miss Orlandi ‘s remains are buried in the tomb
next to De Pedis.

Pietro Orlandi, Miss Orlandi’s brother, welcomed the Vatican’s comments saying
it was the first “official step” that he and others had been
requesting for years.

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