ITALY
France 24
AFP – The trial of a senior cleric accused of corruption and attempted money laundering at the scandal-plagued Vatican bank opened in Rome on Tuesday, Italian media reported.
The court immediately postponed the trial of Nunzio Scarano to December 13, when the first witnesses for the prosecution will be heard, the reports said.
Scarano, who was not present in court, was arrested in June on suspicion of having acted as an intermediary for suspect transactions at the Vatican bank — otherwise known as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR).
The prosecution accuses Scarano of acting as a front for suspicious payments made through the Vatican bank and “interrupting the traceability of money.”
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