Vallejo Balda arrested

(ANSA) - Vatican City, August 29 - Spanish cleric Msgr Lucio Vallejo Balda was arrested on Monday after a Vatican court convicted him for handing confidential information on alleged financial mismanagement to two journalists in the so-called Vatileaks 2 case, the Vatican press office has confirmed.
    The ruling was issued on July 7 by a Vatican tribunal and became effective on Monday. Vallejo Balda is due to serve 18 months in a Vatican cell.
    The case is called Vatileaks 2 because the first Vatileaks trial led to the conviction, and then pardon, of the former butler of ex-pope Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele. Vallejo Balda and co-defendant Francesca Immacolata Chaouquiex - members of the now-defunct COSEA financial commission - were both found guilty in the Vatileaks 2 trial but Chaouqui got a suspended term of 10 months.
    Their aide Nicola Maio was acquitted while the Vatican court said it did not have jurisdiction over the two journalists incriminated in the case, Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi, who were cleared.