A Vatican trial of 10 people accused of financial crimes, including Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resumes after a chief judge ordered the prosecution to give the defence more access to evidence and to question defendants who were not given the right to speak earlier, at the Vatican, November 17, 2021./File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Defence lawyers at the Vatican's big corruption trial, in which one of the 10 defendants is a cardinal, completed their summing up on Tuesday and the court president announced that the verdicts would be announced on Saturday.
The trial, which began in July 2021 and has sat for 85 sessions, revolves mostly around the complicated purchase of a luxury building in London by the Secretariat of State, the Vatican's key administrative and diplomatic department.
