Vatileaks

Vatileaks / Sua Santità / Gianluigi Nuzzi

Vatileaks scandal is a scandal involving leaked Vatican documents, warning of a "death threat" against the Pope, widespread nepotism and corruption, exiled whistle-blowers, gay smear campaigns and embarrassing revelations about the Vatican’s tax affairs.

• Most of the damaging of the "Vatileaks" were revealed by the reporter Gianluigi Nuzzi in a series of TV programmes.
• Gianluigi Nuzzi has now come up with a new books titled Sua Santità (Your Holiness). Gianluigi Nuzzi published letters from Carlo Maria Viganò, formerly the second ranked Vatican administrator to the pope, in which he begged not to be transferred for having exposed alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions in higher contract prices.
• The documents uncover the power struggles inside the Vatican over its efforts to show greater financial transparency and comply with international norms to fight money laundering.

In May 2012, Pope said that there were "exaggerated" and "gratuitous" rumours had offered a false image of the Holy See.