Vatican: Five-and-a-half years in prison for cardinal on trial for financial fraud. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, 75, is the highest-ranking Catholic Church official to appear before the Vatican's criminal tribunal. The cardinal was also fined 8,000 euros, while the Vatican prosecutor's office had requested a sentence of 7 years and 3 months. The investigation had described an "almost inextricable" imbroglio of leveraged hedge funds, banks, credit institutions, natural and legal persons.