ROME
Gazzetta del Sud
Rome, July 31 – A court in Rome said that a Vatican prelate, a former Italian spy and a financial broker – each jailed for allegedly trying to smuggle 20 million euros into Italy – displayed “marked criminal behavior” and “common ruthlessness” in its assessment Wednesday of a decision not to release them. Giovanni Maria Zito, a recently transferred agent in the AISI domestic intelligence agency, financial broker Giovanni Carenzio and Monsignor Nunzio Scarano were detained June 28 in a probe over allegations they conspired to try to secretly repatriate the cash from Switzerland, allegedly the fruit of tax evasion by a family close to the prelate. A judge rejected their request earlier this month to move to house arrest. In its assessment of that decision, the court said the three showed the tendency to “manage people, institutions and things for their own personal gain”.
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