Woman held on international arrest warrant in Vatican ‘corruption’ probe

Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

The Vatican’s swirling corruption investigation has taken a mysterious new twist with the arrest on an international warrant of a Sardinian woman said to be close to one of the Holy See’s most powerful cardinals before his downfall.

Italy’s financial police said that Cecilia Marogna had been arrested in Milan late on Tuesday on a warrant issued by the Vatican City State.