Vatican, London trial starts: with Becciu the first time of a cardinal in the bar

The trial for the financial scandal linked to the investment of the London building on Sloane Avenue will open on Tuesday in the Vatican. Ten defendants, among them Cardinal Angelo Becciu, former substitute for the Secretariat of State, ‘fired’ by the Pope and deprived of the prerogatives linked to the cardinalate. It will be the first time of a cardinal in the stand. ‘Peculation, abuse of office, subornation’, that is, induction of a witness to declare falsehood, the charges against which Cardinal Becciu goes to trial. The first hearing will therefore begin the day after tomorrow at 9.30. Together with Becciu, in the maxi room set up ad hoc in a former multipurpose laboratory of the Vatican Museums to host the trials with many defendants and therefore many lawyers, René Brülhart, former president of the board of directors of the Financial Information Authority, will be tried from Tuesday of the Vatican City; Mauro Carlino, Enrico Crasso, Tommaso Di Ruzza, Cecilia Marogna, Raffaele Mincione, Nicola Squillace, Fabrizio Tirabassi and Gianluigi Torzi. causes of the saints and deprived of the rights connected to the cardinalate following the involvement in the investigation into the purchase of the London building by the Secretariat of State. Becciu will be the first cardinal to be judged with the new law on the Vatican judicial system desired by the Pope, allowing the Vatican Tribunal presided over by Giuseppe Pignatone to be able to also judge cardinals in criminal cases.