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Vatican finances

Torzi talks: Threats, blackmail, and prostitutes feature in UK court ruling on Vatican finance

News: Vatican finances

The Pillar
Mar 24, 2021
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Gianluigi Torzi meets with Pope Francis December 2018.

What happened

A UK judge has lifted a court order against Gianluigi Torzi, the businessman arrested in the Vatican in 2020 and charged with extortion, money laundering, fraud, and embezzlement in connection with the Vatican’s purchase of a London property. 

The full text of that decision, which has be…

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