Virgilio Levaggi Vega

Consecrated layman and a member of the Sodalicio’s founding generation. By the mid-1980s, Levaggi was in charge of Instruction and described as the organization’s number three.

According to the inquiry later commissioned by the Sodalicio, Levaggi sexually abused at least one minor and two young adult men between 1977 and 1987 and sexually manipulated three adult men. After abuse complaints were reported to his superior, Figari, Levaggi left the Sodalicio of his own accord in 1987. In 2016, then-SCV Superior General Alessandro Moroni reportedly admitted that two accusations had been concealed.

In February 2017, Moroni delivered the commission’s investigative report to Lima’s public prosecutor. It documented alleged sexual abuses perpetrated by Luis Fernando Figari, Germán Doig, Virgilio Levaggi and Jeffrey Daniels against 19 minors and 10 adults, including an allegation that Levaggi had sexually abused a 17-year-old boy in 1977. In March 2017, a prosecutor closed the case, citing statute of limitations. In late 2017, another prosecutor, pursuing other charges, called for nine months’ pre-trial detention for Figari, Levaggi, Daniels and Daniel Murguí. According to the Sodalicio, the detention request was annulled in 2019 and the criminal cases against Levaggi and the others were definitively closed in 2024.

Levaggi called the allegations in Sodalicio’s 2017 baseless and denied committing any abuse. As of 2018, he reportedly was living in Madrid.