Spanish cleric Msgr Lucio
Vallejo Balda was arrested on Monday after a Vatican court
convicted him for handing confidential information on alleged
financial mismanagement to two journalists in the so-called
Vatileaks 2 case, the Vatican press office has confirmed.
The ruling was issued on July 7 by a Vatican tribunal and
became effective on Monday.
Vallejo Balda is due to serve 18 months in a Vatican cell.
The case is called Vatileaks 2 because the first Vatileaks
trial led to the conviction, and then pardon, of the former
butler of ex-pope Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele.
Vallejo Balda and co-defendant Francesca Immacolata
Chaouquiex - members of the now-defunct COSEA financial
commission - were both found guilty in the Vatileaks 2 trial but
Chaouqui got a suspended term of 10 months.
Their aide Nicola Maio was acquitted while the Vatican court
said it did not have jurisdiction over the two journalists
incriminated in the case, Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano
Fittipaldi, who were cleared.
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