VATICAN CITY
Reuters
By Philip Pullella and Naomi O’Leary
VATICAN CITY | Mon Aug 13, 2012
(Reuters) – A Vatican magistrate on Monday ordered Pope Benedict’s former butler to stand trial on charges of aggravated theft for leaking documents alleging corruption in the Vatican.
In a 35-page document on the case which has rocked the Holy See since Gabriele was arrested last May, the Vatican also charged a computer expert who worked in the Vatican bureaucracy with involvement in the case, the first mention of a second man.
The layman, named as Claudio Sciarpelletti, was also ordered to stand trial, although on lesser charges of aiding and abetting a crime.
The Vatican said it was not clear when the trial would be held but it would not be before the end of September.
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