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Vatican finances

Top Vatican official admits spying on banker’s phone

Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra admitted to asking Vatican national police to spy on the director of the Vatican's primary bank.

The Pillar
Mar 20, 2023
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Top Vatican official admits spying on banker’s phone
Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Vatican City, May, 2021. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo.

The sostituto of the Secretariat of State, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, appeared as a witness before a Vatican City court on Friday, telling judges that he had ordered unsanctioned electronic spying on the phone of the director general of the IOR, the Vatican bank which had …

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