VATICAN CITY
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
At least 20 people were involved in stealing and leaking compromising documents from the Vatican, the Pope’s butler has claimed.
By Nick Squires, Rome
4:10PM BST 04 Sep 2012
Paolo Gabriele, who has been charged with aggravated theft and is likely to face a Vatican trial next month, told an Italian television programme that there were “at least 20 people” involved in the scandal.
The assertion contradicts the Vatican’s repeated insistence that the plot was small-scale and confined only to Mr Gabriele and a second person who has been charged with complicity, a Vatican computer expert named Claudio Sciarpelletti.
“The Pope wants to clean up (the Vatican) but is encountering difficulties,” Mr Gabriele, 46, told La7 television.
He said he had collaborated with more than 20 other people “who, like me, want to contribute to transparency.”
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