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Vatileaks Scandal
Topic Started: 29 May 2012, 11:49 PM (1,545 Views)
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Cardinals linked to ‘Vatileaks’ scandal

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By Philip Pullella, Vatican City
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The worst crisis in Pope Benedict’s pontificate deepened when Italian media said at least one cardinal was among those suspected of divulging sensitive documents as part of a power struggle at the top of the Church.

The scandal exploded last week when, within a few days, the Pope’s butler was arrested for leaking documents, the head of the Vatican’s own bank was dismissed, and a book was published alleging conspiracies among the cardinals.

Newspapers, quoting insiders who had themselves leaked documents, said the arrested butler was merely a scapegoat doing the bidding of more powerful figures in the scandal, which has been dubbed "Vatileaks".

But Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi strongly denied the claims. "I categorically deny that any cardinal, Italian or otherwise, is a suspect," he said, adding the Pope was being kept fully informed of the case.

The documents, passed to Italian journalists, accuse Vatican insiders of cronyism and corruption in contracts with Italian companies.

La Stampa newspaper quoted one of the alleged leakers as saying the goal was to help the Pope root out corruption.

On Saturday, Paolo Gabriele, 46, the Pope’s personal butler, was formally charged with stealing confidential papal documents.

But leakers quoted by La Stampa, La Repubblica and other media said the plot went much wider.

"There are leakers among the cardinals but the secretariat of state could not say that, so they arrested the servant, Paolo, who was only delivering letters on behalf of others," La Repubblica quoted one alleged whistleblower as saying.

The secretariat of state is run by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone — the Pope’s right-hand man — and the scandal appears to involve a power struggle between his allies and enemies.

It has been brewing for months, but since it burst into the open it has shaken the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church.

Aides say the pontiff is "saddened and pained" by the events. His critics say a lack of strong leadership has opened the door to infighting among his powerful aides — and potentially to the corruption alleged in the leaked documents.

Many Vatican insiders believe the butler, who had access to the Pope’s private apartment, could not have acted alone. He is being held in a "safe room" in the Vatican police station and has been charged with aggravated theft.

Now known in Vatican statements as "the defendant", he was the quiet man who served the Pope’s meals, helped him dress and held his umbrella on rainy days.

"He did not steal the documents. His role was to deliver documents," La Stampa quoted the unidentified alleged leaker it interviewed as saying.

The Vatican’s announcement of the arrest of the butler came a day after the president of the Vatican bank, Italian Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, was fired by its board of external financial experts, who come from Germany, Spain, the US and Italy.

Gotti Tedeschi’s ouster is a blow to Bertone who, as secretary of state, was instrumental in bringing him in from Spain’s Banco Santander to run the Vatican bank in 2009.

While news of the butler’s arrest has filled pages of newspapers in Italy and beyond, the Vatican’s own newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has ignored the story. Some say this may be because the paper itself has been an instrument in the power struggle.

Documents leaked over the last few months included letters by an archbishop who was transferred to Washington by Bertone after blowing the whistle on what he saw as a web of corruption.

Gianlugi Nuzzi who last week published a book called His Holiness — criticised the Vatican for rounding up leakers.

"Surely, arresting someone and rounding up people and treating them like delinquents to stop them from passing on true information to newspapers would cause an uproar in other countries," he said.

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Pope's former butler claims innocence in 'Vatileaks' trial

From Hada Messia, CNN
October 2, 2012

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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he stands in his "popemobile" with his butler Paolo Gabriele, center seated.

Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI's former butler declared himself innocent Tuesday of a charge of aggravated theft in connection with leaked documents -- but said he had abused the pope's trust.

Paolo Gabriele has previously admitted taking hundreds of secret papers from the pope's personal apartment and passing them to an Italian journalist.

Gabriele asserted his innocence Tuesday when he was asked by his lawyer about the theft charge, according to a pool of selected journalists allowed into the courtroom.

The Vatican penal system does not require a formal plea.

But, he said: "I feel guilty of having betrayed the trust that the Holy Father gave me."

The former butler added that he felt he was "the closest layman to the pope."

Corruption claims resulting from the publication of a book based on the leaked materials rocked the Catholic Church hierarchy and could even affect who becomes the next pope.

Testifying Tuesday, Gabriele told the presiding judge, Giuseppe Dalla Torre, that he had received no money in exchange for the papers, according to the journalist pool.

The accused said he did not believe he was the only person to give "news" to the press over the years, but also said that he had "no accomplices."

Computer technician Claudio Sciarpelletti, who worked in the Vatican's secretariat of state, is accused of complicity in the crime.

The court will try him separately, once the former butler's trial is finished.

If convicted of aggravated theft, Gabriele could face up to eight years in an Italian prison, although it is possible the pontiff could choose to pardon him.

Sciarpelletti would face a shorter prison term of only a few months if found guilty.

Questioned by Dalla Torre about how and why he had collected the documents, Gabriele said he had started photocopying them in 2010.

He said his "intention was to find a person he could fully trust to whom to vent .... about the disconcerting atmosphere in the Vatican, felt not only by me. This feeling of bewilderment was widely felt in the Vatican."

Gabriele said he had made the photocopies during regular working hours and in front of other people who worked in the same office.

He told the court that he used his "instincts" in choosing what to photocopy.

He said he had received no money or any other benefit from the person to whom he gave the documents, adding that this "was the essential condition of our agreement."

Gabriele also said that "the book was certainly not something he wanted."

A prosecutor in the case said in a report last month that Gabriele had acted out of a desire to combat "evil and corruption everywhere in the Church."

"I was certain that a shock ... would have been healthy to bring the church back onto the right track," Gabriele is quoted as saying by the prosecutor, Nicola Piccardi.

Asked Tuesday about a gold nugget belonging to the pope that was found by police who searched his apartment, Gabriele told the court he hadn't known it was there.

The officers who carried out the search said the nugget was 3-4 centimeters (just over an inch) long and had been discovered in a shoebox, along with a signed check made out to the pontiff.

The court heard Saturday that 82 boxes of evidence were removed from Gabriele's apartments in Vatican City and Castel Gondolfo, a small town near Rome.

Also Tuesday, the pope's personal secretary, Monsignor George Gaenswein, testified that he never "had any reason to doubt" Gabriele.

More witnesses will be heard in the case Wednesday.

Recalling his initial detention in May, Gabriele told the court that when he was first arrested he was put in a cell so small he couldn't open his arms out to their full extent.

He was later moved to another, larger cell, Gabriele said. However, in this cell, where he was held for 15 to 20 days, the light was kept on 24 hours a day with no means for him to turn it off, he said.

Gabriele said his eyesight had been damaged as a result.

The Vatican prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into his claims of poor treatment in detention.

But Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, head of the Holy See media office, told reporters in a briefing after the court session that the cells used by the Vatican meet international standards.

Lombardi also suggested that the allegations by Gabriele's defense lawyer that his client had been inhumanely treated seem questionable, since they were only coming out now.

A statement from the Vatican Police said the force had been in the process of upgrading its long-term cells when Gabriele was arrested.

The work was accelerated and he was moved to a more comfortable cell after 20 days, the statement said.

The Vatican cells meet the standards present in other countries for similar situations, the statement said.

It added that Gabriele had asked for the light to be left on to keep him company at night, and that he had been provided with eye masks.

Gabriele was given access to medical staff and a spiritual adviser, as well as being allowed to attend mass with his family, the statement added.

Gabriele, wearing the same gray suit he had on for Saturday's initial hearing, appeared more relaxed Tuesday, smiling, closing his eyes briefly and intermittently chewing either gum or candy, according to the journalist pool.

In the previous hearing Gabriele had appeared pale as he sat largely expressionless in the courtroom.

Both sessions were held under closely controlled conditions, with only a handful of approved reporters allowed to attend.

They were required to brief other journalists.

On Saturday, the admitted journalists were made to hand over their own pens in exchange for Vatican-issue ones in case any contained concealed recording devices.

Gabriele's family did not attend either session.

The former butler's lawyer, Christiana Arru, filed objections concerning the admissibility of evidence Saturday, including the results of a psychological exam conducted without the presence of his lawyer and footage gathered via a hidden camera, some of which the court accepted.

Gabriele's case is thought to be the most significant ever heard in the Vatican City courthouse, which has handled mostly petty theft cases in the past.

A Vatican legal expert, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, said in an interview published Sunday in Italian newspaper La Repubblica that popes in the past have typically granted pardons in the face of sincere confessions and repentance.

The Vatican City State penal code for proceedings involving its citizens is based on the Italian penal code of the second half of the 19th century.

Dalla Torre will lead the debate in the courthouse, located behind St. Peter's Basilica, and question the defendant directly.

Prison terms handed down by the court are served in the Italian prison system, under an agreement between the Vatican City State and Italy.

Gabriele was arrested in May, following a top-level Vatican investigation into how the pope's private documents appeared in the best-selling book "Sua Santita" ("His Holiness"), by Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.

The Vatican called the publication of his book "criminal" when it was released in Italian.

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Pope's ex-butler Gabriele 'kept top secret papers'

3 October 2012

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Paolo Gabriele (first from right) said he loved the Pope like a son

The former butler of Pope Benedict XVI kept documents that were considered top secret and were marked "to be destroyed", his trial has heard.

Police officers told the Vatican court they had found "dozens" of papers about the Pope and the Vatican in Paolo Gabriele's possession.

They also found a cheque for 100,000 euros (£80,000) made out to the Pope.

Mr Gabriele admits leaking papers to a journalist which revealed alleged corruption in the Holy See.

The landmark trial is due to end on Saturday, the Vatican has announced.

The officers said they also came across a small gold nugget and a rare old book in Mr Gabriele's home.

Commenting on those items, Mr Gabriele said he was allowed to borrow books from work sometimes, and he denied any knowledge of the piece of gold.

As for the cheque, he said he might have simply scooped it up by mistake as he carted off documents from the Pope's office, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi confirmed the trial would end on Saturday just hours before a major Vatican conference of the world's bishops.

Mr Gabriele's arrest and trial have proved embarrassing for the Vatican, correspondents say.

If convicted, he faces up to four years in an Italian prison but Pope Benedict is expected to grant a pardon.

The court has been under pressure to close the case rapidly, the BBC's David Willey reports from Vatican City.

The Vatican butler was arrested in May, accused of passing papal correspondence to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, whose book His Holiness: The Secret Papers Of Pope Benedict XVI was published that month.

'Thousand documents'

The last four witnesses called by the defence, the Vatican police officers, told the court they had removed more than 1,000 incriminating documents - including originals initialled by the Pope himself - from the butler's home before his arrest.

"There are around 1,000 documents of interest including both photocopies and originals and some documents with the signature of the Holy Father," said Inspector Silvano Carli.

Police officer Stefano De Santis told the court: "There were also documents in code. There were many more documents than were published in the book.

"There were dozens and dozens of documents about the Holy Father, the Secretariat of State and the other Congregations, about the total privacy and family life of the Holy Father.

"There were documents that were considered top secret and to be destroyed."

Another officer who took part in the search, Luca Cintia, said: "Some of the documents were signed by the Holy Father and some were in code with 'Destroy' written on them."

The police said they had also found other documents on issues ranging from former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Freemasonry, but these were not considered to be of interest to the inquiry.

When the police officers told the court they had received instructions to treat the accused and his family gently, Mr Gabriele smiled ironically, our correspondent notes.

On Tuesday, he told the court he had been maltreated by police after his arrest.

'Betrayal'

On Saturday, the hearing inside the small Vatican courtroom will begin with final arguments by the prosecution and the defence, after which Mr Gabriele will be asked to make a statement, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters.

The three judges will then retire to consider their verdict.

On Tuesday, Mr Gabriele insisted he was innocent of the charge of "aggravated theft".

"I feel guilty of having betrayed the trust of the Holy Father, whom I love as a son would," he added.

Mr Gabriele has complained of mistreatment after his arrest, saying the cell where he was kept for 53 days was so small he could not extend his arms, and the light was kept on permanently.

Since the trial began on Saturday, no TV cameras or recorders have been allowed inside the courtroom. Coverage of the trial is restricted to just eight journalists.

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Pope's butler 'had huge file cache'

03/10/2012

Vatican police found thousands of documents hidden inside the home of the pope’s butler, including original documents signed by the pontiff with indications they should be destroyed.

Officers gave evidence in the trial of Paolo Gabriele, the pope’s once-trusted butler who faces four years in prison if convicted of aggravated theft for stealing papal documents and leaking them to a journalist.

The final four witnesses were heard and closing arguments are set for Saturday, when a verdict by the three-judge Vatican panel is expected.

Inspector Silvano Carli said that of the hundreds of thousands of documents seized from Gabriele’s home, about 1,000 were of interest since they were original or photocopied Vatican documents.

Some documents came from the pope's office, some carried the processing codes of the secretariat of state, others originated in various Vatican congregations ``and some documents concerned the total privacy and private life of the Holy Father,'' said police officer Stefano De Santis.

He said some of the originals carried the pope’s handwriting with a note to destroy them written in German. Some were reproduced in journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi’s book “His Holiness: Pope Benedict XVI’s secret papers,” he said.

The rest of the documentation concerned esoteric religious issues and academic research into Freemasonry, Christianity, Buddhism, yoga and politicians, as well as the Vatican Bank, the officers said.

“’See how much I like to read and study,”’ Mr De Santis quoted Gabriele as telling the officers during the search of his home.

Prosecutors have said Gabriele, a devout 46-year-old father of three, confessed to leaking copies of the documents because he wanted to expose the “evil and corruption” in the church to help put it back on the right path.

Gabriele admits he betrayed the pope’s trust, but he nevertheless pleaded innocent to the charge of aggravated theft.

The security breach within the pope’s own entourage has been one of the most damaging scandals of his seven-year papacy.

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5 October 2012

Vatican trial: Verdict due for Pope's ex-butler Gabriele

By David Willey
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Five months after his arrest on charges of stealing thousands of pages of secret correspondence and documents from Pope Benedict's private office in the Vatican, his former manservant Paolo Gabriele is about to learn his fate.

If found guilty - and he has already confessed to Vatican investigators - he faces a possible maximum four-year prison sentence, which he would serve in an Italian jail under a treaty signed with Italy during fascist times.

However, Vatican sources say there is a strong possibility that Pope Benedict will use his power to pardon Mr Gabriele in the near future, perhaps even before he begins to serve a sentence.

Even if he is convicted by the Vatican City Court, he will not be sent to prison until an appeal takes place, which could take months.

Mr Gabriele, a 46-year-old father of three who worked his way up in the Pope's domain from a cleaner's job to the post of butler, valet and sometimes - if we are to believe him - close confidant of the pontiff, spent nearly two months in a police cell and just over another two months under house arrest awaiting trial on charges of aggravated theft.

He appeared in court smartly dressed in a pale grey suit and answered the presiding judge's questions on the second day of the trial precisely and fully.

From the evidence before the court, the butler emerges as a rather devout Catholic believer who until this year was regarded by the small community of men and women who make up the papal household as totally trustworthy.

He kept the keys to the papal apartments, and had access to the entire top floor of the Apostolic Palace where Pope Benedict lives, sleeps and takes his meals.

When the Pope travelled, Mr Gabriele was seated in the Popemobile beside the driver.

When it rained he held a white umbrella to prevent the Pope from getting wet.

He was the Pope's shadow, the layman with closest access to the pontiff.

His position afforded him considerable prestige inside the Vatican where he still lives with his family in a modest "grace-and-favour" apartment only four minutes walk from his job.

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The Pope's butler was one of a restricted number of people with access to his personal apartments

Tension in court

He told the court that because of the "evangelical imprint" of his duties, he felt obliged to help other Vatican employees who did not enjoy the privilege of such close contact with the pontiff.

He said he was often waylayed on his short walk back home by colleagues asking him to hand in a petition or a letter to the Pope because of the privileged position he enjoyed inside the Pope's immediate entourage.

Sometimes, he said, he would ask for a driver to take him directly back home to avoid the embarrassment of having to refuse such favours.

Mr Gabriele's body language in court sometimes betrayed tension, and when Monsignor Gaenswein - Pope Benedict's private secretary and his immediate superior - was giving evidence, the two mens' eyes never met.

The butler sprang to attention both as Monsignor Gaenswein entered and exited the small wood-panelled courtroom.

The secretary had been the first to confront Mr Gabriele with the accusation that he was the person who had been leaking confidential Vatican documents to the Italian media.

What the trial has not revealed so far is the real motive behind Mr Gabriele's apparent betrayal of the Pope's confidence, nor whether any Vatican senior clerics were involved in the most serious internal security breach suffered by the Holy See in living memory.

Vatican police officers gave evidence that when they searched Mr Gabriele's study in his home, they found one large cupboard stacked from floor to ceiling with a disorderly jumble of documents taken from the Pope's office over a period of years.

The documents included original letters initialled by the Pope indicating that he had read them personally, many photocopies, flash sticks and computer disks, and the results of thousands of internet searches on such varied subjects as Freemasonry, espionage, secret agents, yoga and Buddhism.

Police said the material seized from Mr Gabriele's home filled 82 cardboard boxes of a size typically used by house movers.

The Vatican decided early on to speed up the criminal proceedings by reducing the accusations against the butler to a single charge of "aggravated theft".

Originally, the prosecutor had raised other possible charges of conspiracy, crimes against the Vatican City State, defamation and revealing state secrets (all Vatican employees are required to swear an oath of secrecy regarding everything they see and learn in the course of their duties).

After the defence and prosecution have made their summing up on Saturday morning, the three judges will retire to consider their verdict and pass sentence.

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Pope ex-butler Paolo Gabriele jailed for theft

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Pope Benedict's ex-butler Paolo Gabriele has been found guilty of stealing confidential papers from him and sentenced to 18 months in jail.

Prosecutors had called for a three-year sentence but it was reduced because of "mitigating circumstances".

Ahead of the verdict, Gabriele said he acted out of love for the Church and did not see himself as a thief.

He had denied the theft charge but admitted photocopying documents and "betraying the Holy Father's trust".

Gabriele's lawyer Cristiana Arru said she did not intend to appeal against the verdict, Reuters reported.

Her client would serve his sentence under house arrest in his Vatican apartment while awaiting a possible papal pardon, she said.

She was also quoted as saying Gabriele was "serene" about his fate and "ready to accept any consequences".

Gabriele is "very likely" to be pardoned by Pope Benedict, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said, though it is not clear when this might happen.

The former butler was accused of stealing and copying the Pope's documents and leaking them to an Italian journalist.

The BBC's David Willey in Rome says official Vatican media have almost totally ignored the trial since it began and morning radio bulletins have omitted to mention the story.

'High moral motives'

The verdict was delivered after two hours of deliberation by the judges.

Presiding judge Guiseppe Dalla Torre handed down a sentence of three years, then cut it to 18 months citing Gabriele's lack of a criminal record, his apology to the Pope and past services rendered to the Church.

The former butler will also have to pay court costs out of his own pocket.

Gabriele has now been returned to house arrest inside his Vatican apartment, where he has already been confined for several months.

The verdict brings to an end a week-long trial that has revealed an embarrassing breach of security at the highest levels of the Vatican.

On the last day of the trial, defence and prosecution lawyers gave their closing arguments, and Gabriele made a final appeal.

"The thing I feel most strongly is the conviction of having acted out of visceral love for the Church of Christ and of its leader on earth," he said.

"I do not feel I am a thief."

Ms Arru accused the Vatican police of irregularities and failures during their investigations.

She asked the court to reduce the charge to common theft or illegal possession, saying Gabriele had high moral motives although he had committed an illegal act.

Prosecutor Nicola Picardi had sought a three-year sentence, with an indefinite ban on Gabriele holding public office or positions of authority.

The trial also took an unexpected turn when Gabriele complained of the conditions in which he was held by the Vatican security force after his arrest on 23 May.

The judges ordered an investigation after Gabriele said that for more than two weeks he had been kept in a cell so small that he could not extend his arms, and that the light had been left on day and night.

Confession

During testimony, the three presiding judges heard how Gabriele used the photocopier in his shared office next to the Pope's library to copy thousands of documents, taking advantage of his unrivalled access to the pontiff.

He would later pass some on to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.

Mr Nuzzi released a best-selling book this year, entitled His Holiness, largely based on the confidential papers and detailing corruption, scandals and infighting.

Its publication sparked the hunt for the source of the leaks inside the Vatican, leading to Gabriele's arrest.

Police also told the court how they found thousands of documents at Gabriele's home, including some original papers bearing the Pope's handwriting.

Some had the instruction "destroy" written by the Pope in German on them.

Although Gabriele entered a not guilty plea, prosecutors say he confessed to taking documents during an interrogation in June, a confession he later stood by in court.

He told prosecutors he hoped to reveal alleged corruption at the Vatican, and believed that the Pope was being manipulated.

"I feel guilty of having betrayed the trust of the Holy Father, whom I love as a son would," he told the court earlier this week.

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Questions still linger in Vatileaks scandal

VATICAN CITY - Agence France-Presse

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Starting with the victim, Pope Benedict XVI, there was nothing normal about the trial of Paolo Gabriele, the Vatican butler convicted on Oct. 6 of stealing secret papers from the papal palace.

The defendant said he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to rid the Vatican of “evil and corruption” and the main judge was from an aristocratic family that has served the papacy for generations who has been knighted by the Vatican.

Gabriele was found guilty of aggravated theft and given 18 months in prison, although Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said that a pardon from Benedict was “very likely” to come soon, before the sentence was actually implemented.

The biggest trial in modern Vatican history leaves many questions hanging. One of the most pressing is whether Gabriele really did act alone as he claims; another is whether the Vatican will probe some of the most serious allegations of fraud contained in the papers Gabriele leaked to a journalist.

An investigation is ongoing and Vatican gendarmes are still analysing computer files seized from Gabriele’s home after finding “more than 1,000” sensitive documents including letters the pope had marked “To Be Destroyed”.

The findings of a parallel inquiry into the “Vatileaks” scandal conducted by a committee of cardinals appointed by the pope have also not been made public.

The cardinals interviewed dozens of people working in the Vatican.

Lombardi said only “a limited part” of the criminal inquiry was complete and that other more serious charges -- such as the violation of state secrecy, defamation and conspiracy -- were still being considered by investigators.

The trial gave a few hints of Gabriele’s social network and the jealousies and tensions under the surface in the Vatican’s tight-knit community.

He himself claimed there was “widespread discontent” in the Vatican and said that senior cardinals and the pope’s former housekeeper had confided in him.

In the only interview he gave before his arrest in May, he said there were “around 20” like-minded people spread across different Vatican departments.

Gabriele also told the police that he had confessed his crime to a priest, Father Giovanni Luzi, and handed him copies of the documents he was leaking.

The priest said he burnt them since he knew they were illegally obtained.

In one interrogation, Gabriele said some papers he leaked with allegations of corruption in the Vatican police had been given to him by a third person.

But investigators have so far identified only one other person who has been charged with aiding and abetting the butler.

Prosecutors said they first thought he must have acted with others because of all the secret papers found in a search of his home, many more than were ever published, but had since found “no evidence” of accomplices.

Gabriele’s career is also an open question as the court did not accept a request from prosecutors for Gabriele to be banned from positions of responsibility in the Vatican and the butler is only suspended from his duties.

Nuzzi has said the investigation should not be into how the documents were leaked but into the actual allegations contained in the documents.

He said: “With the end of the trial, will the contents of the book be discussed or will there still be a commotion aimed at discrediting Gabriele?”

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Vatileaks journalist urges pope to pardon butler

October 08, 2012

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VATICAN CITY: An Italian investigative journalist who published confidential Vatican papers called on Pope Benedict XVI on Monday to pardon his former butler, who was found guilty last week of leaking the documents.

"I call solemnly on the Holy Father to accord his pardon to his former member of staff, punished for removing documents," Gianluigi Nuzzi wrote in the online edition of the French newspaper Le Monde.

Paolo Gabriele was given an 18-month prison sentence by a Vatican court on Saturday for his role in the so-called Vatileaks affair.

He was found guilty of aggravated theft after photocopying hoards of secret memos revealing scandal and intrigue in the Vatican, and passing the copies on to Nuzzi, who published them in May in a book called "His Holiness".

The journalist said Gabriele had "not violated any military or diplomatic secret" as had been the case with the Wikileaks revelations.

The Vatican's spokesman has said the pope is very likely to pardon Gabriele.

Nuzzi said he wanted to explain "the real reasons" which motivated the former butler, who was convinced he was doing something "essential and just".

"He often insisted on the fact that the Holy Father was a total stranger to the conspiracies, power struggles and financial issues revealed by the documents published in my book," Nuzzi wrote.

"He said Benedict XVI was a pure man in the midst of wolves.

"Gabriele was seeing the growth of the astronomical distance between the shepherd of the church who was working for the transparency of the relationship between states and what was being plotted behind his back," Nuzzi wrote.

He questioned how much of the information given to the pontiff was "partial or distorted... in an attempt to try to influence him."

"Paolo Gabriele became the confidant of those among the bishops and cardinals were like him torn between their faith, their sincere admiration of the pope and the backstairs manoeuvring they witnessed," Nuzzi said.

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Cardinal Ruini says press went awry reporting Vatileaks case
Pope's butler case 'mainly about bad journalism'

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The former president of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) said Thursday the press went awry in its depiction of the so-called 'VatiLeaks' case of leaked sensitive Church documents.

"Much was emphasized well beyond what actually happened," Cardinal Camillo Ruini told RAI radio.

"Very little (happened) in the way that newspapers presented it," Ruini said.

According to his account, that is why the trial of the pope's ex-butler Paolo Gabriele, who was convicted of stealing and leaking Popoe Benedict XVI's confidential papers to the press, was done in a public manner.

"To give a more realistic idea of what truly occurred," he said.

Ruini downplayed the importance of the leaks themselves and emphasized the "disrespectful" way the information was obtained.

"There's no need to have fear" of journalistic inquiries into the Vatican and the Catholic Church, he said, but "one can ask those who do it to go about it correctly. If they do it correctly there's no harm done".

Ruini is also pope's former vicar for the Roman diocese.

The pope's former butler was sentenced to 18 months in jail earlier this month.

Vatican watchers say he is likely to be pardoned by the pope.

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Butler took photos, videos of pope: report

18 OCTOBER 2012

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This file picture taken in 2006 shows Pope Benedict XVI's at the time butler Paolo Gabriele (R) arriving with the pontiff during a weekly general audience at St Peter's square. Vatican investigators have found photos and short videos of Pope Benedict XVI filmed with a mobile phone by his butler Paolo Gabriele, the Corriere della Sera daily reported online on Thursday.

AFP - Vatican investigators have found photos and short videos of Pope Benedict XVI filmed with a mobile phone by his butler Paolo Gabriele, the Corriere della Sera daily reported online on Thursday.

Gabriele was convicted by a Vatican court earlier this month of stealing confidential documents from the the papal palace and leaking them to a journalist in an attempt to reveal fraud and intrigue in the Vatican.

Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in prison but is currently under house arrest in his Vatican apartment awaiting a possible pardon from the pope.

If he has to serve his sentence, Gabriele cannot do so in the Vatican as the tiny state -- the world's smallest -- has no prison and he would be transferred to an Italian prison under a diplomatic agreement between the two.

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Vatileaks trial of technician to begin Nov 5

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October 23, 2012

Vatican computer technician will go on trial on November 5 on charges of helping the pope's former butler steal secret papers, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Tuesday.

Claudio Sciarpelletti's trial follows the conviction of ex-butler Paolo Gabriele, who was found guilty of stealing papers which revealed fraud scandals and intrigue at the heart of the Vatican, and sentenced to 18 months in jail.

The 48-year-old technician was arrested on May 25 as the Vatican investigation into the leaks unfolded, but was released the following day.

He was initially due to stand in the dock with Gabriele in earlier October, but was granted a separate trial.

His alleged role in stealing and leaking the memos is considered "rather marginal" by the judiciary, Lombardi said.

His trial is likely to be even shorter than Gabriele's, the spokesman added.

Gabriele spent months under house arrest but his trial in the so-called Vatileaks scandal lasted a week.

An envelope containing stolen documents and addressed to Gabriele was found in Sciarpelletti's desk within the walls of the tiny state.

He has claimed ignorance, insisting he had forgotten it was there and never opened it.

The technician has also admitted, however, that two people gave him envelopes containing documents to pass on to the butler.

The relationship between the two is unclear.

While Gabriele insists they were friends, Sciarpelletti says they were nothing more than acquaintances.

The trial could reveal interesting elements regarding five witnesses -- or possible accomplices -- whose names have been blacked out and replaced with letters of the alphabet in court documents.

The butler had told Italian investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, who published the leaks, that there were "around 20" like-minded people in the Vatican -- sparking rumours that the leaks may be orchestrated by cardinals.

Religious watchers will be following the Sciarpelletti trial closely to see whether any fresh names emerge that could shed light on the latest scandal to embarrass the Vatican.

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Vatileaks butler to be jailed

Sapa | 25 Oktober, 2012

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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead the general audience in Saint Peter's square, at the Vatican.
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The pope's butler Paolo Gabriele will be locked up in a Vatican police cell the Vatican said.

His jailing comes after the prosecution decided not to appeal against his 18-month prison sentence for leaking papal documents.

Gabriele had been under house arrest since he was found guilty on October 6 of stealing documents from Pope Benedict XIV's apartments.

A judicial source said later he would not be appealing against the verdict.

"Given that no appeals have been lodged against the sentence of October 6 in respect of Mr Paolo Gabriele, it becomes definitive,", a statement from Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Holy See press office, said.

"As a result, on the warrant of the president of the court the prosecutor gave orders this morning for his imprisonment, in carrying out the sentence," the statement said.

"The warrant should be executed during the day."

The former butler was found guilty of leaking hundreds of sensitive Vatican documents in a case that has been dubbed "Vatileaks" and included allegations by a former governor of the city state of massive fraud within its walls.

A papal pardon has not been ruled out.

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05 NOVEMBER 2012

Pope butler 'accomplice' goes on trial

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Cardinals and bishops follow the pontif's weekly general audience at St. Peter's square in October 2102 at the Vatican. A Vatican computer technician will go on trial Monday on charges of helping the pope's former butler steal papers, in a case that could expose other whistle-blowers within the secretive Holy See.

AFP - A Vatican computer technician will go on trial Monday on charges of helping the pope's former butler steal papers, in a case that could expose other whistle-blowers within the secretive Holy See.

Claudio Sciarpelletti's trial follows the conviction of ex-butler Paolo Gabriele, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail last month after he admitted leaking papers alleging corruption and Machiavellian politics in the Vatican.

The 48-year-old technician was arrested on May 25 as the investigation into the leaks unfolded but was released the following day.

He is accused of aiding and abetting Gabriele.

It was a suspicious envelope addressed to Gabriele in Sciarpelletti's desk that first drew investigators' attention to the computer expert.

In it, they found photocopies of memos published by Italian investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi in his book "His Holiness", which collected together letters depicting infighting within a corrupt Vatican.

The book touched on everything from fraud allegations to sex abuse scandals.

Called to account, Sciarpelletti's testimony was confused and contradictory.

He said Gabriele had given him the envelope because he wanted his opinion on the contents, but that he had never opened it and had forgotten it was there.

He later said it was someone else entirely that had given him the envelope -- a person identified in court documents only by the letter "W" -- which he was supposed to pass on to Gabriele, but which lay forgotten in his desk.

He also talked about a second envelope, given to him by a certain "X".

The trial will likely delve into the relationship between the butler and the technician. Gabriele -- now serving time in a holding cell within the Vatican -- is expected to take the stand to testify to their close friendship.

Sciarpelletti, however, insists they were no more than acquaintances.

The Vatican has already said Sciarpelletti's alleged role in leaking the memos is "marginal" and that he would face only a light sentence if convicted after a trial likely to be shorter than Gabriele's, which lasted a week.

Religious watchers hope Sciarpelletti's turn in the dock will shed light on issues left hanging by the butler's trial -- one of the most pressing being whether Gabriele really did act alone, as he claims.

The butler's trial hinted at the jealousies and tensions under the surface in the Vatican's tight-knit community, more details of which may now emerge.

Sciarpelletti's trial may reveal the identities of "W" and "X" -- who could be among the 20 or so like-minded people the butler said there were in the Vatican -- or could include a priest to whom Gabriele gave copies of the leaks.

When the scandal first broke in March, there was much speculation over whether Gabriele could have orchestrated such a large operation alone -- and some suspected a bid by power-hungry cardinals to shake up the Vatican's hierarchy.

While the Vatican's Secretariat of State, the government of the Roman Catholic Church, said Gabriele's trial "revealed as unfounded speculation over the existence of a plot and involvement of others", critics accused the world's smallest independent state of not probing deeper in order to hush up the affair.

The findings of a parallel inquiry into the "Vatileaks" scandal conducted by a committee of cardinals appointed by the pope have also not been made public, leading to accusations of a cover-up.

"Vatileaks: the sums do not add up", the Vatican Insider newspaper said as the Holy See geared up for the second chapter in the biggest court drama in its modern history.

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Vatileaks ‘accomplice’ denies frequent contact with Pope’s butler

VATICAN CITY: A Vatican computer technician accused of helping Pope Benedict XVI’s former butler leak secret memos denied “frequent contact” with his alleged accomplice at the start of his trial on Monday.

Claudio Sciarpelletti attended the first hearing in the tiny state’s 19’th-century courtroom, where it emerged that Vatican police had been tipped off to his links with disgraced ex-butler Paolo Gabriele by an anonymous note.

The 48-year-old is accused of aiding and abetting Gabriele, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail last month after he admitted leaking papers alleging corruption and Machiavellian politics in the Vatican.

“It all began with an anonymous note from an official in the Vatican’s Secretary of State, who spoke of frequent meetings between Gabriele and Sciarpelletti,” the technician’s lawyer Gianluca Benedetti told the court.

Benedetti denied the allegation and said that Sciarpelletti did not have “a close friendship (and) frequent contact” with Gabriele.

Sciarpelletti faces a possible sentence of up to one year in prison.

Gabriele — now serving time in a holding cell within the Vatican — is expected to take the stand to testify to their close friendship.

But Sciarpelletti has insisted they were no more than acquaintances.

In a hearing mainly taken up with technical issues, Benedetti’s request that the charges against his client be dropped was refused.

He also said his client had been in “an emotional state” when he gave contradictory accounts to police.

The next hearing was scheduled for Saturday, and it may be the last, as the Vatican rushes to wind up the embarrassing and damaging months-long scandal.

The technician was arrested on May 25 as the investigation into the leaks unfolded but only spent one night in a Vatican cell before being released.

A search by Vatican police unearthed a suspicious envelope addressed to Gabriele in Sciarpelletti’s desk.

In it, they found photocopies of memos published by Italian investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi in his book “His Holiness”, which collected letters depicting intrigue and infighting inside the Vatican.

The book touched on everything from fraud allegations to sex abuse scandals.

Called to account, Sciarpelletti’s testimony was confused and contradictory.

He said Gabriele had given him the envelope because he wanted his opinion on the contents, but that he had never opened it and had forgotten it was there.

He later said it was someone else entirely that had given him the envelope — a person identified in court documents only by the letter “W”.

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Claudio Sciarpelletti, computer technician, sentenced in Vatileaks case
Claudio Sciarpelletti, a former computer technician at the Vatican, was found guilty of obstructing justice.

Talia Ralph, November 10, 2012

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Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi reacts during a press conference following an audience of Pope Benedict XVI former butler Paolo Gabriele's trial on October 2, 2012. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images)

Claudio Sciarpelletti, a former computer technician at the Vatican, was found guilty of obstructing justice in the Vatileaks case that has already seen the arrest of the Pope's ex-butler Paolo Gabriele.

Sciarpelletti, 48, was given a suspended sentence of two months after initially being given a four-month sentence, NBC News reported.

He will not be required to serve his sentence for the two probationary months, and the sentence may be thrown out at the end of the allotted period if he does not break the law in that time.

The technician, who worked at the Vatican for 20 years, also faced charges of "aiding and abetting Gabriele" in leaking sensitive papal documents to an Italian journalist, but was only convicted of obstruction because he changed his account of the events and his relationship to Gabriele several times during the investigation, Reuters reported.

Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre cited Sciarpelletti's long years of service at the Vatican as contributing to his decision to suspend the sentence, and ordered that the criminal conviction would not show up on his record, the Associated Press reported.

Sciarpelletti's desk was searched last May by Vatican police after they received an "anonymous tip-off," and they found a suspicious envelope addressed to Gabriele and private documents, BBC News reported.

So far, Gabrielle and Sciarpelletti are the only two who have been charged in the leaks scandal, though Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi told reporters after the verdict that the investigation "'isn't closed," according to the AP.

He did not say if there were others under investigation.

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Vatileaks computer expert to appeal 2-month sentence

Sciarpelletti sentenced for helping butler remove pope documents

15 November

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(ANSA) - Vatican City, November 15 - A computer expert sentenced to two months in the so-called Vatileaks scandal, which saw the pope's ex-butler convicted of stealing and leaking confidential Vatican papers, said Thursday he would appeal the court decision.

Vatican computer expert Claudio Sciarpelletti, 48, convicted of facilitating the documents' removal and circulation, will appeal the sentence, his defence lawyer said Gianluca Benedetti said.

The same judges who sentenced ex-butler Paolo Gabriele to one-and-a-half years in prison on October 6 for "aggravated theft" presided over Sciarpelletti's trial.

Sciarpelletti was found guilty of aiding Gabriele while working as a computer technician at the Vatican.

Gabriele, a 46-year-old husband and father of three, was given an 18-month prison sentence following the separate trial after admitting passing documents to a journalist.

Pope Benedict is widely expected to pardon him.

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Vatican introduces new security measures after Vatileaks scandal

Vatican clergy and employees will be issued with an identity card complete with a microchip-tracking device in sweeping new security measures designed to prevent a repeat of the Vatileaks scandal.

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By Josephine McKenna in Rome, 02 Dec 2012

Much tighter controls have already been introduced for anyone seeking access or photocopies of the Holy See's archives, dossiers and documents.

The Papal Apartments, which include the living quarters of Pope Benedict XVI and the offices of his personal staff inside the Apostolic Palace, are totally off limits to anyone without strict authorisation.

Slovenian priest, Mitja Leskovar, an anti-espionage expert nicknamed 'Monsignor 007', is in charge of implementing the new security procedures with the identity cards expected to be introduced from January 1.

Leskovar, who grew up in the former Yugoslavia under Communism, is responsible for the transmission of confidential documents between the Vatican and its papal nuncios or diplomats inside the Secretariat of State and also supervises all requests for document photocopying within the secretariat.

Thousands of clerical and lay staff working inside the walls of the Vatican from the Apostolic Palace to the Secretariat of State will be affected by the tighter scrutiny that will also enable their superiors to monitor when they clock in and out.

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22 DECEMBER 2012

Pope pardons butler, expels him from Vatican

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Pope Benedict XVI's at the time butler Paolo Gabriele October 10, 2006 arriving with the pontiff during a weekly general audience at St Peter's square. Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday pardoned his former butler Paolo Gabriele, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for leaking secret papal memos, but banished him from the Vatican.

AFP - Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday pardoned his former butler Paolo Gabriele, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for leaking secret papal memos, but banished him from the Vatican.

"This morning the Holy Father Benedict XVI visited Paolo Gabriele in prison in order to confirm his forgiveness and to inform him personally of his acceptance of Mr Gabriele's request for pardon," the Vatican said in a statement.

Gabriele's pardon was a "paternal gesture" for a man "with whom the pope shared a relationship of daily familiarity for many years."

However, the ex-butler "cannot resume his previous occupation or continue to live in Vatican City," it added.

After a 15-minute meeting with Benedict, Gabriele returned home to his wife and three children, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said.

He had spent a total of three and a half months in detention.

A former trusted aide who passed hours of every day in the pontiff's company, Gabriele will now have to move out of his home within the tiny city state's walls.

"The Holy See, trusting in his sincere repentance, wishes to offer him the possibility of returning to a serene family life," the Vatican said.

Gabriele was found guilty in October of leaking sensitive memos to the press as part of a whistle-blowing campaign against what he said was "evil and corruption" in the Vatican.

Documents secretly copied and leaked in a case that has been dubbed "Vatileaks" included allegations by a former governor of the city state of massive fraud within its walls.

During the trial, Vatican police said they had found more than 1,000 secret documents, some photocopies but others originals, in Gabriele's home, stolen from the papal palace.

These included letters from cardinals and politicians and papers the pontiff himself had marked "To Be Destroyed".

Gabriele had said he wanted to "help" the pope who, he claimed, had been kept in ignorance of scandals inside the Vatican. The documents were handed to an Italian journalist, Gianluigi Nuzzi, who published them in a book.

While the disgraced butler was initially given a three-year jail term, the presiding judge reduced the sentence on the grounds of his past service to the Catholic Church and his apology to the pope for betraying him.

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Holy chip: Vatican introduces swipe cards after ‘Vatileaks’

02 January, 2013

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A Swiss guard stands guards whille ecclesiasts pray during the celebration of Vespers on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord on January 2, 2012 at St Peter's basilica at the Vatican.(AFP Photo / Vincenzo Pinto)

The Holy See is launching a swipe card system to get a better idea of what its employees are doing when they’re in the Vatican.

But is it a measure to increase efficiency or a means to snoop on workers following the ‘Vatileaks’ scandal?

Microchips hidden in every card allow Vatican officials to track every person in their clerical and lay employment, this amounts to around 3,000 staff from the Apostolic Palace to the Secretariat of State.

Visitors are allowed in by invitation only and have to sign a register, but workers can be casually greeted by a nod of recognition from the guards in their colorful Renaissance uniforms.

The system bears little resemblance to the up-to-date measures used in most governmental offices or private companies.

It also seems the Vatican has been quite lax about enforcing work hours, relying mainly on the staff’s sense of responsibility.

"When a journalist asked Pope John XXIII how many people work in the Vatican, he replied: 'About half'," writes Robert Mickens, a correspondent for The Tablet daily, who used to work at Vatican Radio.

"The Vatican has tried hard to check that people stick to their working hours for years," Mickens said. "At Vatican Radio they introduced electronic badges years ago because people would go for their coffee break and return hours later. So I think that this is more of a case of the Vatican trying to check that its employees do their job than to prevent them from leaking information."

Other reports suggest that the swipe card system has been mooted for years, but was only pushed through after the butler scandal.

Moreover, it is just one measure to beef up security in the Vatican City.

Pope Benedict XVI’s new butler is prohibited from carrying out any secretarial tasks, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The new butler won’t even be sharing an office with the pope's personal secretaries, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein and Monsignor Alfred Xuereb.

All this was never the case with former butler Paolo Gabriele, who was convicted of stealing the pontiff's private documents and leaking them to Italian media sources. Gabriele was sentenced to 18 months in jail by a Vatican court, but was pardoned by the Pope this Christmas.

Another brick in the new security bastion is appointing anti-espionage expert Mitja Leskovar to oversee coded messages and photocopies, now anyone wishing to get a photocopy has to add their name and what they are copying, to a special register.

The registers are then checked by Leskovar, who has been nicknamed 'Monsignor 007'.

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Big Brother in the Vatican: Holy See Denies Tracking Employees after Vatileaks

Vatican said to have created ID cards to monitor staff after leak by former papal butler Paolo Gabriele

By UMBERTO BACCHI
January 2, 2013

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The Holy See was said to have indroduced a monitorig system inside the Apostolic Palace (Reuters)

The Vatican has denied claims it has introduced a 'Big Brother' system to control its employees and their movements inside the Holy See following the "Vatileaks" scandal.

Vatican authorities allegedly fitted the identification card of each employee with a microchip able to locate the card holder anywhere inside the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.

The palace has more than 1,000 rooms and hosts the Pope's apartments as well as the Vatican Secret Archives and the Sistine Chapel.

The new card is also reportedly designed to carry out the more routine task of clocking each worker's ins and outs.

The new monitoring system was due to come into effect on New Year's Day 2013 as part of a security clampdown launched after confidential papers were leaked by the Pope's former butler Paolo Gabriele, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Other measures introduced alongside the tracking chip include the prohibition of Pope Benedict XVI's new butler from carrying out secretarial tasks, and the appointment of Slovenian priest and anti-espionage expert Mitja Leskovar, aka 'Monsignor 007', to oversee the Vatican security system.

However a Vatican spokesperson told IBTimes UK that employees' badges were last changed a few years ago and they don't contain any tracking device.

"We have been swiping our ins and outs with the same badge for several years," the spokesperson said.

Gabriele was initially sentenced 18 months in jail by a Vatican Court, having reportedly taken advantage of his close access to the pontiff to photocopy thousands of documents before handing them to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.

Gabriele was later freed after receiving the Pope's pardon in December last year.

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