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Giovanni Angelo Becciu (born 2 June 1948) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and convicted felon. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 28 June 2018. On 24 September 2020, he resigned the rights associated with the cardinalate.
Jul 27, 2021 · Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu (L) had been a close adviser to Pope Francis. A Roman Catholic cardinal who was once a close ally of Pope Francis has gone on trial in the Vatican, accused of...
Dec 16, 2023 · A Vatican criminal court on Saturday sentenced Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once one of the church’s most powerful Vatican officials, to five and a half years in prison for financial...
Dec 16, 2023 · Becciu, the first-ever cardinal to be prosecuted in the Vatican's criminal court, was accused of embezzlement-related charges in two tangents of the London deal and faced up to seven years in...
Dec 16, 2023 · Updated 2:57 PM PDT, December 16, 2023. VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.
Dec 16, 2023 · A Vatican court has sentenced Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, a former adviser to Pope Francis, to five-and-a-half years in jail for financial crimes. Becciu, 75, was the most senior Vatican...
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Dec 16, 2023 · 7 min. VATICAN CITY — Inside the high walls of the Holy See, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu — former head of the office of “miracles” that minted saints — was considered papabile, a ...