VATICAN CITY
ABC News (United States)
VATICAN CITY February 5, 2012 (AP)
The administration of the Vatican City State on Saturday categorically rejected as groundless a top prelate’s accusations of corruption in the Holy See’s awarding of contracts.
Last month, an Italian investigative news program reported that the prelate had unsuccessfully requested not to be transferred to Washington by Pope Benedict XVI after exposing alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions of euros in terms of higher contract prices.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano was the No. 2 administrator until the pope selected him to be his envoy to the U.S. last fall.
While the Vatican had previously defended Vigano’s transfer to the prestigious post as proof of Benedict’s “unquestionable respect and trust” in him, the written statement Saturday by the Vatican’s governorship was the Holy See’s first response to the corruption allegations themselves.
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