
Cardinal Becciu Pushes Back Against Vatican Media Editorial
Cardinal Becciu took the opportunity in his commentary to vehemently protest allegations he had defrauded the Pope.
Cardinal Becciu took the opportunity in his commentary to vehemently protest allegations he had defrauded the Pope.
Speculation that the money was used to influence Cardinal Pell’s criminal trial is ‘crazy, crazy stuff,’ the Vatican’s former deputy secretary of state asserts in a new television documentary.
Reasons for conviction involve the illicit use of Holy See funds.
Cardinal Becciu himself is currently in appeal proceedings after he was sentenced to more than five years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of over $8,000.
Cardinal Becciu has denied all wrongdoing and his lawyers have announced that the cardinal will appeal the ruling in the Vatican’s yearslong finance trial.
Cardinal Becciu, 75, who for more than seven years held the third-highest position in the Holy See, is the first cardinal to be sentenced by a Vatican court since its creation as a city-state in 1929.
The historic trial centered on what happened in and around the Secretariat of State’s 350-million-euro purchase of an investment property in London between 2014 and 2018.
Cardinal Becciu, who used to work as the second-ranking official in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, has been charged with embezzlement, abuse of office, conspiracy, and witness tampering.
Libero Milone is suing the Holy See for 9.3-million euros for unfair dismissal.
The 74-year-old cardinal has also been accused of using Vatican funds to help a charity run by his brother, an allegation that made waves when it was published in a major Italian newspaper in September 2020.
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