The Vatican is embroiled controversy as reports emerge that it accepted one billion lire 22 years ago to ensure that a crime boss was interred in a basilica.
Reports in Britain say the decision regarding the burial of Enrico De Pedis was made despite initial reluctance from the then vicar-general of Rome, Cardinal Ugo Poletti.
De Pedis was the former boss of Rome's notorious Magliana gang.
The Belfast Telegraph reports that the money was used on missions and to restore the Basilica of St Apollinare, where the mobster was laid to rest next to popes and cardinals after his death in 1990.
The Independent said that last week Vatican officials decided to move the remains of De Pedis from his crypt.
Speculation is growing that De Pedis' gang was behind the 1983 kidnap and murder of Emanuela Orlandi, 15, the daughter of a Vatican official and that she was kidnapped in a bid to keep him silent about links between the Vatican Bank and organised crime.
Emanuela's brother, Pietro Orlandi, has joined calls for De Pedis' tomb to be opened amid claims that Emanuela's body may also be bured there.
The Vatican says there are no secrets to reveal.
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