Mons. Mauro Carlino, who worked with Tirabassi, has been charged with
extortion and abuse of office.
At the center of the trial is the
Secretariat of State's purchase of a building at 60 Sloane Avenue in London. It was bought in stages between 2014 and 2018 from
, who at the time was
managing hundreds of millions of euros of secretariat funds. Mincione will also stand trial on charges of embezzlement, fraud, abuse of office, misappropriation, and self-money laundering.
suspicions he was working
to defraud the Secretariat of State.
Crasso, who is the manager of the Centurion Global Fund in which the Holy See is the principal investor, faces the most charges: corruption, embezzlement, extortion, money laundering, self-money laundering, fraud, abuse of office, falsifying a public document, and falsifying a private document.