Lawyers for Cardinal Angelo Becciu and two other defendants have filed a strongly worded legal memorandum accusing the Promoter of Justice of openly defying an order from the Vatican Court of Appeal in Rome by withholding integral investigative acts, raising the possibility that the retrial ordered by the court could be derailed.
The memorandum, deposited on May 14 at the Vatican Court of Appeal and seen by il Giornale and reported by Nico Spuntoni, was prepared by the legal team of Cardinal Becciu, Enrico Crasso and Raffaele Mincione. It requests the court to declare “the nullity of the citation to judgment, adopting the consequent measures, as well as to revoke the order relating to the time granted to the parties to ‘prepare the defence evidence’”.
