VATICAN CORRUPTION TRIAL RESUMES DEC. 1ST

The corruption trial involving the #Vatican resumes December 1, 2021. Defense lawyers have accused prosecutors of withholding evidence. Surprise surprise. The trial, which began last July, is the culmination of a two-year investigation and revolves mostly around the purchase by the Vatican's Secretariat of State, led by Cardinal #AngeloBecciu, of a €350m (or $412M usd) property in Chelsea London with church money.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu has denied any wrongdoing and said he was the victim of a plot. He is suspected of embezzlement and abuse of office. There are 10 people total indicted in the case. The cardinal was in charge of all the church's donations and stands accused of using some of these donations to make risky financial investments, including the Chelsea property.
The idea was to convert the building into flats. At a hearing last October, the court ordered prosecutors to provide their evidence to the accused and their lawyers, including audiovisual material and other evidence prosecutors obtained by intercepting communications the accused engaged in with other church officials involved in the trial. This comes after #Popefrancis started a campaign to clean up the Church's finances that have been affected by years of scandals.....until he fired the auditors when they got too close to other secret financial transactions. Could Becciu be the fall guy for this mafia religion....we'll soon see.

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