Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu was a powerful figure at the Vatican before he was convicted of financial crimes there and ordered by Pope Francis to resign. Now the old man’s dead, Becciu expects to be among those choosing Francis’s replacement as Pope—he was never removed from the College of Cardinals,
Becciu was convicted of embezzlement and fraud in 2023 and handed a five-and-a-half-year jail sentence.
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