Following testimony from defense witnesses in the trial of Cardinal Angelo Becciu and nine other defendants, the Vatican financial trial has resumed with testimony from witnesses for the prosecution.
A hearing in the Vatican finance trial on May 20, 2022. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Oct 4, 2022 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The hearings at the Vatican’s corruption trial resumed last week and shed light on new aspects of the “trial of the century” an.
null / Vatican Media.Rome Newsroom, Sep 30, 2022 / 08:37 am (CNA).After a break of over two months, the Vatican trial on financial corruption in the Secretariat of State continued this week with the interrogation of witnesses for the prosecution.The court reconvened Sept. 28, 29, and 30, to begin the questioning of the first of what the prosecution expects to be a total of 41 witnesses it will call.The witness list includes Vatican gendarme Stefano De Santis, who assisted the Vatican s now chief Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi during the trial s preliminary investigation; he is expected to testify at the next scheduled hearing on October 12. A British-Italian architect, Luciano Capaldo, has been called to testify by the prosecution the same week. Capaldo was the registered director of the holding company London 60 SA Ltd, through which the Secretariat of State controlled the London property after its purchase.The building at 60 Sloane Avenue in London is at the center of the V.