Top Vatican official admits spying on banker’s phone

Top Vatican official admits spying on banker’s phone

The sostituto of the Secretariat of State, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, appeared as a witness before a Vatican City court on Friday, telling judges that he had ordered unsanctioned electronic spying on the phone of the director general of the IOR, the Vatican bank which had rejected a loan application from Peña Parra’s office.Admitting that he ordered electronic “monitoring” of IOR director Gianfranco Mammì both in Vatican City and in Italy with…