The Vatican on trial at High Court

A British financier responsible for bringing the Vatican to its first ever trial at the UK’s High Court claims he was the victim of ‘baseless suspicion’ from the papacy. Raffaele Mincione, a millionaire financier and ex-fiance of Heather Mills, is challenging the Holy See over claims that he duped them into paying more for a property in Chelsea than it was worth. The defendant in the civil trial is referred to in court papers as the Secretariat of State of…