Vatican prosecutor seeks 7 years in jail for cardinal, confiscation of $460M from 10 people
After the hearing, Becciu's lawyers, Maria Concetta Marzo and Fabio Viglione, repeated that Becciu should be found innocent and said he had always acted as a "loyal servant of the church"
VATICAN CITY -The Vatican prosecutor asked a court Wednesday to convict 10 people, including a cardinal, of a range of financial crimes, sentence them to three to 13 years in prison and order the confiscation of some 415 million euros ($460 million) to pay the Holy See back for bad investments and financial losses over the past decade.
Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi ended six days of aggressive closing arguments with his requests for a verdict and sentencing. After a summer pause, the defence and civil parties in the Vatican's "trial of the century" will deliver their closing arguments, with Judge Giuseppe Pignatone's court expected to deliver a verdict before the end of the year. ---More...
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