Credibility of key prosecution witness questioned in Vatican financial trial
Vatican CityRNS The Vatican’s sprawling megatrial addressing alleged financial mismanagement and corruption among its top officials encountered a new hurdle on Thursday as the credibility of a key prosecution witness, Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, was thrown into question by new information from an unexpected source. On Wednesday, the Vatican’s chief prosecutor, Alessandro Diddi, told the Vatican […]
Vatican airs dirty laundry in trial over London property
Vatican CityAP The Vatican’s sprawling financial trial may not have produced any convictions yet or any new smoking guns as prosecutors work through a first round of questioning of the 10 suspects accused of fleecing the Holy See of tens of millions of euros. But testimony so far has provided plenty of insights into how […]
Defence in Vatican financial trial demands to see Pope’s testimony
Vatican CityRNS Lawyers defending those accused of defrauding the Vatican in a $US400 million real estate investment asked judges on Wednesday to release written transcripts of Pope Francis’ statements on the deal, alleging that prosecutors’ use of the pontiff’s statements may have influenced another witness in the case. From the start of the trial in […]
Vatican real estate deal trial gets underway with defence on the attack
Vatican CityRNS A dull silence filled the room when Cardinal Angelo Becciu, shoulders hunched and eyebrows furrowed, walked in for the first day of a historic Vatican trial, in which he is one of 10 facing a wide range of charges for their part in a real estate deal using Catholic Church funds. Becciu is […]
Vatican police raid home, office of influential church official in investment inquiry
Vatican CityRNS Vatican police have raided the office and apartment of Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, a former top deputy in the Catholic Church’s powerful Secretariat of State, seizing documents and computers, according to a Vatican statement issued on Tuesday. The raid was ordered by Gian Piero Milano, the Vatican’s chief presecutor, and resulted from investigations into […]