A former employee of the Fabric of Saint Peter has been arrested in the Vatican on charges of receiving stolen property, extortion and fraud. The man allegedly tried to resell to the same institution an ancient document, a manuscript on Gian Lorenzo Bernini, that he had previously stolen, it is not yet certain whether from the Vatican or from a private collection. The protagonist of the affair, an art historian and former lecturer, had been head of communications at the Vatican institution between 1995 and 2011.
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