Deutsche Welle, 10 November 2012
A computer
technician convicted of obstructing justice during the probe into stolen
Vatican documents has been given a suspended sentence. The documents were
leaked by the Pope's former butler to the press.
A Vatican
court on Saturday handed imposed a two-month suspended sentence on Claudio
Sciarpelletti for his role in what is being called the Vatileaks scandal.
The
suspended sentence is set to last five years, said Giuseppe Dalla Torre, the
presiding judge in the case.
The court
ruled that Sciarpelletti had helped Pope Benedict XVI's former butler, Paolo
Gabriele, leak sensitive Vatican documents to the press. Sciarpelletti said he
played no part in the leak.
Gabriele is
serving 18 months in jail for stealing the documents, saying it was an attempt
to expose corruption in the Catholic Church.
The
information contained in the documents made its way into a book by an Italian
journalist about alleged corruption at the Vatican.
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