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'Vatileaks' trial due to end after nearly eight months
Source: Reuters
World | Wed Jul 6, 2016 8:26pm EDT
'Vatileaks' trial due to end after nearly eight months
VATICAN CITY | BY PHILIP PULLELLA
The trial of five people accused of leaking or publishing confidential documents depicting a Vatican plagued by corruption and mismanagement goes to a panel of judges for verdicts on Thursday.
The four non-clerical judges will retire after each defendant is allowed to make a final statement on Thursday morning. Verdicts in the "Vatileaks II" trial, which started in November, are expected for Thursday afternoon.
They will end a sometimes bizarre trial whose main protagonists were public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui, who is Italian, and Spanish priest Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda.
Once colleagues in a now-defunct papal reform commission investigating Vatican finances, their past relationship was at best ambiguous, and they spent most of the trial hurling insults and accusations at each other.
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'Vatileaks' trial due to end after nearly eight months
VATICAN CITY | BY PHILIP PULLELLA
The trial of five people accused of leaking or publishing confidential documents depicting a Vatican plagued by corruption and mismanagement goes to a panel of judges for verdicts on Thursday.
The four non-clerical judges will retire after each defendant is allowed to make a final statement on Thursday morning. Verdicts in the "Vatileaks II" trial, which started in November, are expected for Thursday afternoon.
They will end a sometimes bizarre trial whose main protagonists were public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui, who is Italian, and Spanish priest Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda.
Once colleagues in a now-defunct papal reform commission investigating Vatican finances, their past relationship was at best ambiguous, and they spent most of the trial hurling insults and accusations at each other.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-trial-idUSKCN0ZN00R
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