"The norms of the Code of Canon Law did not allow the operations carried out by the Secretariat of State that were the subject of this process to be carried out." This was supported by the Vatican prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, in his indictment during the trial underway in the Vatican for the financial investments of the Secretariat of State in London. A real estate speculation of 350 million dollars, ended with a loss of about 150 million. "The IOR could not have disbursed the loan for the purchase of the London palace", continued the prosecutor, according to what was reported by the "pool" of journalists admitted in the Hall of the Vatican Museums: "There has been a short circuit of the system, the temporal goods of the Church must be managed according to the purposes proper to the Church", recalled Diddi, according to whom "there was a serious violation committed by the Secretariat of State in the management of funds, because the ends of the Church are certainly not speculative operations but the promotion of divine worship, the sustenance of the clergy and works of charity, especially at the service of the poor. The ecclesiastical goods are all regulated by the canons of the Code and a large part of these funds come from faithful offerings. There has been great confusion about this." "There is not a faithful in the world who, by paying a bid, could think that one of his euros was used for speculative operations," said Diddi.