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Vatican City, Dec 3, 2012 \/ 04:45 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Vatican court said in a detailed sentence issued Dec. 1 that the testimony given by the computer technician Claudio Sciarpelletti was neither \u201ccredible\u201d nor \u201ctruthful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe sentence was handed down Nov. 10, and was filed Dec. 1, as the final installment of the \u201cVatileaks\u201d saga. It is not unusual for Italian courts to deposit sentences weeks after the handing down of a verdict.<\/p>\n

\tThe court found the computer technician guilty of aiding and abetting former butler to the Pope, Paolo Gabriele, in his theft of sensitive documents.<\/p>\n

\tSciarpelletti was originally sentenced to four months in prison, but his sentence was reduced two months due to extenuating circumstances.<\/p>\n

\tHis sentence came as part of the Vatican\u2019s investigation into the theft of private documents belonging to Pope Benedict, which were then leaked to a journalist who published them in a best-selling book.<\/p>\n

\tGabriele was given an 18-month prison sentence in a separate trial, which ended in October. He is serving out his sentence in a Vatican Gendarmerie prison cell.<\/p>\n

\tSciarpelletti, 48, was arrested for a short time in May after his lawyer said an anonymous tip led to the search of his desk. An envelope was found addressed to Gabriele containing copies of documents that had been leaked to the Italian media.<\/p>\n

\tGianluca Benedetti, who represented Sciarpelletti in the case, argued in court that his client was in an \u201cemotional state\u201d when he gave confused and contradictory testimony to investigators, leading to the charges leveled against him.<\/p>\n

\tThe sentence records that Sciarpelletti changed his story a number of times about how secret documents came into his possession, and that his testimony was neither \u201ccredible\u201d nor \u201ctruthful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tWhen asked about his changing story at his trial, Sciarpelletti said he had the document so long that he forgot where it came from. His changing story led to the prosecutor seeking obstruction charges.<\/p>\n

\tThe testimony of both Gabriele and Monsignor Carlo M. Polvani, Sciarpelletti's superior, were deemed to be more credible and consistent than his.<\/p>\n

\tJudge Giuseppe Dalla Torre noted the computer technician\u2019s long years of service at the Vatican, but he said the court concluded Sciarpelletti had helped Gabriele \u201celude the investigations of the authorities\u201d at the Vatican.<\/p>\n

\tThe judge ordered that the computer technician\u2019s criminal conviction not appear on his permanent record.<\/p>\n

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Vatican City, Dec 3, 2012 \/ 04:45 pm (CNA\/EWTN News).- The Vatican court said in a detailed sentence issued Dec. 1 that the testimony given by the computer technician Claudio Sciarpelletti was neither “credible” nor “truthful.”
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