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Vatican unveils investment ethics body as corruption trial drags on

The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled a committee to oversee the ethics of its investments, even as a corruption trial related to a botched London real estate deal in which it lost more than 200 millions euros continued.

Reuters · Jun 7, 2022

Vatican airs dirty laundry in trial over London property

The Vatican’s sprawling financial trial may not have produced any convictions yet or any new smoking guns

The Independent UK · May 22, 2022

Relics and militants: Vatican fraud trial sprawls the globe

The Vatican’s financial trial has taken a surreal turn with a defendant asserting she escorted two emissaries of Russian President Vladimir Putin into the Holy See to negotiate the return of relics to the Russian Orthodox Church

The Independent UK · May 19, 2022

Vatican cardinal says donations went to charity, not brother

A once-powerful cardinal has told a Vatican court that he donated 125,000 euros ($140,000) of Vatican money to a Sardinian diocesan charity for purely charitable reasons

The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2022

Cardinal calls accusations 'grotesque' at Vatican corruption trial

The cardinal at the centre of a huge corruption trial testified for the first time on Thursday, saying he was the victim of a "media massacre" and would prove he had not embezzled even one cent of the Vatican's money.

Reuters · Mar 17, 2022

Vatican judge rejects defence motions; rules fraud trial will go on

The defence at a Vatican corruption trial failed definitively on Tuesday to have charges against their clients dropped and the judge ordered it to begin in earnest with the questioning of a cardinal.

Reuters · Mar 1, 2022

Cardinal skips Vatican trial to boycott talk of rumoured liaison with woman

A cardinal who is a defendant in a Vatican corruption trial stayed away on Tuesday because he did not want to be in the room when lawyers spoke of rumours that he had an intimate relationship with a woman, which he has denied.

Reuters · Jan 25, 2022

Vatican cardinal complains prosecutors asked about sex life

The lone cardinal indicted in the Vatican’s big fraud and embezzlement trial is complaining that the pope’s prosecutors offended his dignity by suggesting he was having sex with a co-defendant

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022