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... 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 ...

Jean - Baptiste De Franssu told the Vatican court last week that he had "no other choice" but to refer the London deal for investigation. - - The president of a major Vatican Bank told a courtroom Thursday that he reported a suspicious Vatican property deal to investigators, even while senior Vatican officials offered him 'protection' to help the deal go through. ...

The court also ruled that the president of the Institute for the Works of Religion, better known as the 'Vatican bank,' French layman Jean - Baptiste de Franssu, also can be questioned.