German ‘luxury bishop’ settles with court over 1st class flight-to-poverty case

BERLIN, Nov 20:  A German court has dropped for the time being an investigation into a Roman Catholic prelate known as the ‘luxury bishop’ over accusations he lied under oath about taking a first-class flight to visit poverty projects in India. State prosecutors had sought to have Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg fined for making false affidavits about the flight, but the court accepted a 20,000-euro settlement. (agencies)
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