Cardinal and nine others await verdicts in historic Vatican fraud trial
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Angelo Becciu, a once powerful cardinal and ex-adviser to Pope Francis, is charged with embezzlement, abuse of office.
A two and a half year corruption trial that exposed infighting and intrigue in the highest echelons of the Vatican is set to close when a court is due to hand down verdicts for a once-powerful cardinal and nine other people.
Judge Giuseppe Pignatone will on Saturday read out the verdicts of the three-judge panel in the converted courtroom in the Vatican Museums.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, 75, a former adviser to Pope Francis and once considered a papal contender himself, is the first-ever cardinal to be prosecuted in the Vatican’s criminal court and the most senior clergyman in the Catholic Church to face justice in the tiny city-state.
He is charged with embezzlement, abuse of office and trying to induce a witness to give false testimony.
Becciu has denied all wrongdoing, as have the other nine defendants – including financiers, lawyers and ex-Vatican employees – also charged with financial crimes, including fraud, money laundering and extortion.
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