Rome, 17 March (LaPresse) – The Vatican Court of Appeal has quashed the first-instance verdict in the trial of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Raffaele Mincione and Cecilia Marogna concerning the purchase of a building in London. Procedural errors were acknowledged. The Court “does not declare the entire first-instance judgement null and void: neither the trial proceedings nor the verdict. These, in fact, retain their effect both in relation to the defendants and the civil parties, as well as the second-instance court,” write the judges of the Holy See’s Court of Appeal. “Similarly, in the new trial, the liability of the acquitted defendants cannot be called into question.” “They have upheld our requests arguing that the prosecutor should not select which documents to submit, that is, that all documents must be filed,” explains Fabio Viglione, Cardinal Becciu’s defence lawyer, to LaPresse.
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