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Vatican Finance Trial

Spies like us: Claims of bugging, hidden cameras, Italian intelligence links among London deal key players

News: Vatican finance trial

The Pillar
Jan 31, 2022
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Luciano Capaldo speaks at a 2013 conference. Credit: WGN/Real Estate Exchange via YouTube.

A businessman tied to the Vatican’s London property deal admitted to prosecutors that he spied on behalf of the Vatican on a broker involved in the deal, and passed information on to an official at the Vatican Secretariat of State. 

The spying admission emerged in n…

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