Becciu anticipated to attraction sentence by Vatican courtroom.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu was convicted by a Vatican legal courtroom on Saturday of embezzlement and fraud and sentenced to 5 and a half years in jail in a historic ruling.
The Sardinian cardinal is the highest-ranking Vatican official ever to face monetary expenses, in a trial that concluded this weekend after two and a half years and 86 hearings.
The cardinal was additionally fined €8,000 and banned from public workplace for all times however was aquitted on different counts of embezzlement, abuse of workplace and witness tampering.
Becciu, 75, is predicted to attraction the jail sentence which centres across the mismanagement of a property portfolio together with a luxurious constructing on Sloane Avenue in London round a decade in the past.
Becciu on the time was quantity two within the Secretariat of State, the Vatican division that works most carefully with the pope, a robust place he held from 2011 to 2018.
Becciu, who has denied any wrongdoing, stood trial with 9 different defendants together with financiers, legal professionals and former Vatican staff.
9 of the defendants had been sentenced to a complete of 37 years in jail whereas one – Monsignor Mauro Carlino – was acquitted of all legal expenses.
