Cardinal and nine others to learn their fate in trial that aired Vatican state’s dirty laundry
by Nicole Winfield
Dec 16, 2023
3 minutes
A once-powerful cardinal and nine other people are to learn their fate Saturday when a Vatican tribunal hands down verdicts in a complicated financial trial that has aired the tiny city state's dirty laundry and tested its justice system.
Judge Giuseppe Pignatone will read out the verdicts of the three-judge panel in the converted courtroom in the Vatican Museums, where prosecutors and defense attorneys have sparred for 2½ years over the details of a money-losing investment in a luxury London property.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first-ever cardinal to be prosecuted in
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