The Vatican has abandoned its extradition request for an Italian woman sought on charges related to financial misconduct connected to a series of scandals that recently have rocked the highest levels of power in the Church.
At the hearing on Monday in an Italian court in Milan, the Vatican said it is not seeking to detain the woman, 39-year-old Cecilia Marogna, suspected of involvement in shady dealings somehow connected to disgraced Cardinal Angelo Becciu and a £200 million Sloane Avenue real estate development in London. That removed the reason for the hearing, which was to evaluate the extradition request.
