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Angelo Becciu, 75, is the most senior Vatican official ever to be charged with financial crimes

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court, was convicted on Saturday of embezzlement.

A Vatican tribunal has convicted an Italian cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to five and a half years in prison after a corruption trial that exposed infighting and intrigue in the highest echelons of the Vatican.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court, was convicted on Saturday of embezzlement and sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail.

Angelo Becciu is the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court, in a case that exposed intrigue in the highest echelons.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, 75, along with nine other defendants await verdicts in the historic Vatican fraud trial case. With the two-and-a-half year corruption trial concluded on Satuday, cardinal’s fate is set to be decided soon. Italian cardinal Becciu is charged with embezzlement, abuse of office and trying to induce a witness to give false testimony

VATICAN CITY: Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court, was convicted on Saturday (Dec 16) of embezzlement and sentenced to five and a half years in jail. The Italian prelate's lawyer, Fabio Viglione, told reporters in the courtroo

A powerful cardinal has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for embezzlement over the purchase of a former Chelsea car showroom that cost the Vatican tens of millions of euros.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the most senior Catholic Church official ever to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court,...

A Vatican cardinal has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail after being convicted of embezzlement.