Vatican: The Holy See publishes the Court Rulings on “Vatileaks 2”

During the "Vatileaks 2" trial which ended on 7 July 2016.

The court rulings from the “Vatileaks 2” trial for the theft and exposure of confidential documents were published on December 24, 2016. According to Radio Vatican on the same day, it is an 86-page long document that goes over the different steps of the trial and points out the “specifics of Vatican City State law”. It develops “the question of freedom of expression” and indicates that the documents revealed “do not endanger the fundamental interests of the Church and Vatican State.”

Spanish prelate Monsignor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda and Italian Francesca Chaouqui, “a communications expert”, were condemned on July 7, 2016 for providing the press with confidential information. Both were members of the COSEA, a committee of experts commissioned by Pope Francis in 2013 to assist in his projects for a financial reformation of the Holy See. The trial began at the end of November 2015. Francesca Chaouqui was given a 10 months suspended sentence. Monsignor Balda, who was doing 18 months in prison, was released on parole on December 21, 2016, after 7 months in jail. According to the press agency I.Media, the 55-year-old priest returned on December 25, 2016 to his diocese, under the authority of the bishop of Astorga, in the northwest of Spain, and will have no further collaboration with the Holy See.

(sources: cath.ch/radio Vatican/imedia – DICI no.348 dated Jan. 20, 2017)

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