Sassari preliminary hearings judge (GUP) Sergio De Luca on Monday indicted nine people, Antonino Becciu, the brother of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, and the Bishop of Ozieri, Corrado Melis, on embezzling and money charges over laundering of 2 million euros in funds from Italy’s 8×1,000 personal income tax devolution to the Catholic Church were were earmarked for the diocese.
The trial is scheduled to start on April 9.
Last month, Prosecutor Gianni Caria in the Sardinian city had filed a request to indict the nine suspects.
The other people involved in the case includes the local director of Catholic charity Caritas, Father Mario Curzu and the parish priest of San Nicola in charge of the diocese’s funds, Father Francesco Ledda, who have denied through their defense teams illicit use of the funding they received from the Vatican’s Secretary of State and the Italian Bishops’ Conference CEI.
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