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Cardinal is convicted of embezzlement in Vatican's first criminal trial
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A Vatican tribunal has convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.
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Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever prosecuted by the Vatican criminal court, was convicted in a complicated financial trial that aired the Vatican's dirty laundry.
Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, former adviser to Pope Francis, has been sentenced by a Vatican court to five and a half years in jail for financial crimes, making him the most senior Vatican official ever to face such charges.
A Vatican court found Cardinal Angelo Becciu guilty of several financial crimes. He is the highest ranking Catholic Church official to stand before the court.
A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city…
A Vatican court on Saturday sentenced a once powerful Italian cardinal to five years and six months in jail for financial crimes at the end of a historic trial.
VATICAN CITY >> A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.
A senior Catholic cardinal was sentenced to more than five years in prison Saturday following a lengthy trial at the Vatican over financial impropriety and the mismanagement of funds.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu received his sentence Saturday after being found guilty on multiple counts of financial misconduct by the Tribunal of Vatican City State.
The first cardinal to be prosecuted by the Vatican court was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to prison Saturday, according to the Catholic News Agency.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever prosecuted by the Vatican criminal court, was absolved of several other charges and his nine co-defendants received a mixed outcome of some guilty verdicts and many acquittals
The Vatican court sentenced former cardinal and papal adviser Angelo Becciu to 5 1/2 years in prison for financial crimes related to a London real estate deal, in the Holy See’s longest ever trial.
Verdicts were handed down Saturday in the Vatican’s “trial of the century,” involving charges of financial crime against Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu and nine other defendants.
A Vatican tribunal has convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.
The trial had raised questions about the rule of law in the city state and Francis’ power as absolute monarch, given that he wields supreme authority there.
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