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First Posted: Jul 28, 2021 10:28 AM EDT
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After investigations of the alleged criminal management of Vatican assets, including donations by countless Catholics, a trial was opened in Vatican City for 10 defendants, including a cardinal, on Tuesday.
According to Fox News, the 73-year-old, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, was the most senior cleric in modern times to face trial for the alleged financial crimes. Becciu was charged with spending more than €350M or $412M of church money. The said fraud case focused on the botched deal of buying a property in Chelsea that incurred huge losses for the Vatican.
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The trial over a multi-million euro scandal involving the purchase and financing of a building in London by the Vatican, a powerful cardinal and two senior officials of the Vatican’s financial intelligence unit, and other defendants , started on Tuesday. ) – but its pursuit has already been postponed.
The cardinal is the powerful Angelo Becciu, 73, who had carte blanche in all areas of the Vatican. On Tuesday, however, he passed a metal detector like everyone else as he entered the makeshift courtroom, with an occasionally dismayed look in his eyes.
He then remained silent for nearly eight hours of the hearing, until the trial was adjourned to October 5 at the request of the defense lawyers, as they had not yet analyzed all the evidence of the charges. against him on July 3.
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