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By Maria Ward-Brennan The Vatican, home of the Catholic Church, an expensive London building and an alleged multi-million-pound fraud lawsuit heads to the London High Court on Wednesday (today) for trial. The dispute stems from a corruption scandal related to the Vatican’s purchase of an expensive landmark property, a former Harrods depository, in Chelsea from Athena Capital Fund. The Vatican bought the property for €350m (£295.5m) in 2012 with the intention of converting it into luxury apartments, but after problems arose with the project, the Vatican later sold the building at a loss of abou…

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