Gazzetta del Sud

Rome, July 29 – Pope Francis said Monday that he was pained by the case of a Vatican prelate arrested for alleged involvement in a failed bid to bring 20 million euros into Italy illegally. Mons. Nunzio Scarano, who until recently led a key Vatican accounting unit, was arrested in June in a probe over allegations he conspired with a former Italian spy and a financial broker to try to secretly repatriate the cash, allegedly the fruit of tax evasion by a family close to the prelate.