VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service | May. 25, 2016
VATICAN CITY A former consultant to a pontifical commission who denied to a Vatican court that she leaked documents about the Vatican’s financial reform had admitted to sending the documents when she was first interrogated, a Vatican policeman said.
Stefano DeSantis, an officer investigating the leaking of the documents, testified May 24 that Francesca Chaouqui told Vatican police officials she sent documents regarding the Vatican Asset Management (VAM) to Gianluigi Nuzzi, author of “Merchants in the Temple.”
“We never assumed that she gave the documents, she admitted to it,” DeSantis told the court.
Chaouqui is on trial along with Msgr. Vallejo Balda, secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, and Nicola Maio, the monsignor’s former assistant, for “several illegal acts” of leaking Vatican documents.
Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, author of “Avarice” are accused of “soliciting and exercising pressure, especially on [Msgr.] Vallejo Balda,” to obtain the documents.
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