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.
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