Cardinal claims new revelations prove prosecutorial misconduct in ‘Trial of the Century’

Cardinal claims new revelations prove prosecutorial misconduct in ‘Trial of the Century’

ROME – The Vatican’s “trial of the century,” which ended in December 2023 with guilty verdicts against Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight other defendants for financial crimes, is back in the news this week following revelations in an Italian newspaper suggesting, according to Becciu himself and lawyers for several other defendants, possible prosecutorial misconduct and raising questions about the legitimacy of the results. The revelations…