ROME
AFP
ROME — A senior Catholic cleric arrested as part of a sweeping probe of the scandal-plagued Vatican bank rejected accusations of money-laundering and corruption on Monday, Italian media reported.
Nunzio Scarano, 61, who was arrested Friday along with a former Italian spy and a financer for allegedly plotting to smuggle millions of euros into Italy, “strongly reaffirms his morality,” his lawyers were reported as saying.
“He has defended himself and we have requested he be moved to house arrest somewhere where he can celebrate mass,” media quoted lawyers Francesco Caroleo Grimaldi, Silverio Sica and Luca Paternostro as saying, following a three-hour meeting with their client and judge Barbara Callari in Rome.
Scarano “is not well, he is very tried and is not sleeping well,” they said.
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