VATICAN CITY
ANSA
(ANSA) – Vatican City, April 13 – Vatileaks 2 defendant Gianluigi Nuzzi, author of the financial exposé book The Way of the Cross, on Wednesday testified that he had never threatened or pressured a co-defendant accused of passing him confidential documents, Msgr Lucio Vallejo Balda.
In the trial, investigative reporters Emiliano Fittipaldi and Nuzzi are accused of using leaked documents from three Vatican officials to write two expose’-style books, respectively Avarice and The Way of the Cross, which respectively examine the Vatican’s financial empire and Pope Francis’s efforts to bring about reform.
The other defendants are Italian PR expert Francesca Chaouqi and Spanish prelate Balda, both former members of the now-defunct COSEA commission set up to advise Pope Francis on the reform of the Holy See’s economic and administrative structure, and Balda’s former assistant Nicola Maio.
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