Francesca Chaouqui

New testimony at Vatican financial trial details intrigue over key witness’s deposition

By Claire Giangravé — January 13, 2023
(RNS) — The credibility of Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, a key witness to the Vatican prosecutors in the financial mega-trial, is currently being questioned.

Credibility of key prosecution witness questioned in Vatican financial trial

By Claire Giangravé — December 1, 2022
(RNS) — Prosecutors said they will investigate Monsignor Alberto Perlasca after evidence emerged that his testimony was influenced by a source well known to Vatican insiders.

Woman in Vatileaks trial got messages via confession box, new book says

By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 7, 2017
ROME (Reuters) The episode is one new element in the book 'In Peter's Name,' by Francesca Chaouqui, who got a 10-month suspended sentence at the end of a sensational eight-month trial dubbed 'Vatileaks 2' last July.

Ex-Vatican PR consultant loves Trump even if Pope Francis doesn’t

By David Gibson — April 20, 2016
ROME (RNS) “And go @realDonaldTrump !!!” Francesca Chaouqui, a former Vatican aide now on trial for leaking documents, tweeted as the billionaire real estate mogul won big in the New York primary.

2 arrested in Vatican leaked documents probe

By Rosie Scammell — November 2, 2015
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has announced the arrest of two people in connection with the alleged theft of confidential documents, the first such case since the “Vatileaks” scandal saw a papal butler jailed for leaking Holy See secrets.
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