The Vatican announced today that the president of Vatican City State’s Tribunal, Giuseppe Pignatone, has subpoenaed ten people for a trial scheduled to begin on July 27.
The ten, who include Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the former deputy Secretary of State, are charged with various crimes relating to a London property deal that resulted in massive losses for the Holy See running into hundreds of millions of euros.
The trial is the result of two years of investigations by the Vatican’s Promotor of Justice.
The full 488-page text of the decree of indictments (so far in Italian only)
Cardinal Becciu will be the first cardinal to go on trial in the Vatican State Court. He is being charged with what the Vatican today said were crimes of “embezzlement and abuse of office, also in complicity with others, as well as subornation.”
The former prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has always strenuously denied the charges. “Finally the moment of clarification is coming,” he said in a statement on Saturday, “and the Court will be able to find the absolute falsity of the accusations against me and the dark plots that have fed them.”
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