Vatican security chief quits over leaks
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The Vatican鈥檚 latest leaks scandal claimed its first victim yesterday, as Pope Francis鈥 chief bodyguard resigned over the leak of a Vatican police flyer identifying five employees who were suspended as part of a financial investigation.
The Vatican said its police chief, 57-year-old Domenico Giani, bore no responsibility for the leaked flyer but resigned to avoid disrupting the investigation and 鈥渙ut of love for the church and faithfulness鈥 to the pope.
The person who leaked the document to Italian newsweekly L鈥橢spresso remains unknown.
Giani, a 20-year veteran of the Vatican鈥檚 security services, has stood by Francis鈥 side and jogged alongside his popemobile during hundreds of public appearances and foreign trips. He also was the chief bodyguard for Pope Benedict XVI, and the Vatican took pains to stress his 鈥渦nquestionable faithfulness and loyalty鈥 to the Holy See.
Giani had signed the October 2 police flyer after his agents raided two Vatican offices 鈥 the secretariat of state and the Vatican鈥檚 financial intelligence unit 鈥 as part of an investigation by Vatican criminal prosecutors into alleged financial irregularities surrounding a money-losing London real estate deal.
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