Originally published at National Catholic Register
The tribunal ordered the removal of evidence of corruption from Libero Milone’s claim, which he calls unjust.
VATICAN CITY — Libero Milone, the Vatican’s first ever auditor general, has vowed to continue fighting for justice after a Vatican tribunal ordered key elements of his lawsuit against the Vatican for unlawful dismissal to be removed.
Milone says the elements related to documented evidence of financial mismanagement, corruption and obstructionism that Milone and his team of auditors came across between 2015 and 2017.
Together with his former deputy, Ferruccio Panicco, who died in 2023, Milone sued the Vatican for 9.3 million euros in 2022 for unfair dismissal, loss of income, and damage to their reputations, after the Vatican ignored their attempts to reach an out-of-court settlement.
The ex-auditor general, a former chairman and CEO of the Italian branch of the multinational auditing firm Deloitte, has always strenuously maintained that he and Panicco were ruthlessly pushed out after uncovering financial irregularities and corruption at the high levels within the Vatican.
But the tribunal threw out their case in January 2024 and imposed fines of approximately 100,000 euros on Milone and Panicco’s estate, leading Milone to issue an appeal.
Nine months later, Milone
