VATICAN CITY
Reuters
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The trial of five people accused of leaking or publishing confidential documents depicting a Vatican plagued by corruption and mismanagement goes to a panel of judges for verdicts on Thursday.
The four non-clerical judges will retire after each defendant is allowed to make a final statement on Thursday morning. Verdicts in the “Vatileaks II” trial, which started in November, are expected for Thursday afternoon.
They will end a sometimes bizarre trial whose main protagonists were public relations expert Francesca Chaouqui, who is Italian, and Spanish priest Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda.
Once colleagues in a now-defunct papal reform commission investigating Vatican finances, their past relationship was at best ambiguous, and they spent most of the trial hurling insults and accusations at each other.
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