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Cardinal Becciu, the first cardinal to be tried by the Vatican tribunal, was dealt a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence, an 8,000 euro (about $9,400) fine, and a permanent disqualification from holding public office.
The cardinal maintains he acted with papal approval and says prosecutors ignored key evidence in the landmark financial case.
The dispute over his eligibility to vote threatened to undermine the integrity and legitimacy of the papal election.
The disgraced cardinal, who was convicted of financial crimes in 2023, claims he has the right to participate despite resigning his cardinal privileges.
Cardinal Becciu took the opportunity in his commentary to vehemently protest allegations he had defrauded the Pope.
Speculation that the money was used to influence Cardinal Pell’s criminal trial is ‘crazy, crazy stuff,’ the Vatican’s former deputy secretary of state asserts in a new television documentary.
Reasons for conviction involve the illicit use of Holy See funds.
Cardinal Becciu himself is currently in appeal proceedings after he was sentenced to more than five years in prison and ordered to pay a fine of over $8,000.
Cardinal Becciu has denied all wrongdoing and his lawyers have announced that the cardinal will appeal the ruling in the Vatican’s yearslong finance trial.
Cardinal Becciu, 75, who for more than seven years held the third-highest position in the Holy See, is the first cardinal to be sentenced by a Vatican court since its creation as a city-state in 1929.
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