The pontiff signed secret decrees authorising wiretaps
The case centres on the Secretariat of State’s purchase and subsequent sale of a commercial property in London—transactions in which more than €100m in donations collected from the faithful were lost. Like previous Vatican financial scandals, this one is richly spiced with improbable detail. The latest twist to emerge is that in 2019, shortly before the scandal broke, Pope Francis signed an edict authorising the Vatican’s prosecutors to use wiretaps that were placed on Italian subjects in Italy.
Unlike all previous papalThe edicts are now at the heart of the courtroom wrangles that have so far delayed the case. Defence counsel have argued for the charges against their clients to be dismissed on two grounds. Firstly, that thein effect suspended the rule of law in the Vatican, vitiating any investigations conducted while they were effect.
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