Vatican City’s highest appellate court has rejected an appeal from the city state’s chief prosecutor that sought to reopen the case against Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu and other defendants, even after the prosecution secured convictions against nine separate defendants on charges of various financial crimes, in a maxi-trial that concluded in 2023. Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi had asked the Court of Cassation of the Vatican City State to let him re-argue a central tenet of his case and prove that the financial crimes and acts of corruption for which he had already secured convictions at first-instance trial were actually part of a unified conspiracy involving the defendants.
