Vatican: Becciu ordered to compensate Perlasca

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 11 - Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the highest-ranking Catholic cleric to be charged with financial crimes, was ordered by a Como court Friday to compensate a a former Vatican financial official and key witness in the Holy See funding case for "persecutory acts" against him and a female friend.
    Becciu is among 10 people on trial in the Vatican for fraud, including in relation to the loss-making acquisition of a London property on Sloane Avenue when he was the Substitute for General Affairs in the Secretariat of State.
    The Como court condemned Becciu to compensate Mons. Alberto Perlasca, former head of the Administrative Office of the Secretariat of State, and the latter's friend Genoveffa Ciferri.
    It found the cardinal guilty of an "abuse of the procedural instrument" in the case brought by the two for non-pecuniary damage from crime, or persecutory acts.
    Becciu was sentenced to reimburse the court costs of Perlasca and Ciferri (over 20 thousand euros each) and to compensate for the damage suffered by Perlasca to the tune of nine thousand euros. (ANSA).