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		</div><p>The Vatican said on Thursday that its prosecutor is investigating two former officials of a Vatican-owned children&#8217;s hospital over renovations at the penthouse apartment of the city-state&#8217;s former secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.</p>
<p>The cardinal denied that he had authorised any such payments related to his apartment, said his lawyer, Michele Gentiloni Silverj.</p>
<p>The Vatican statement confirmed a report in Espresso magazine that Giuseppe Profiti, the Bambino Gesu hospital&#8217;s former president, and Massimo Spina, its ex-treasurer, were under investigation.</p>
<p>The Vatican said the investigation was ongoing but did not say when it began.</p>
<p>The report by journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi, among five defendants on trial at the Vatican in a leaked documents case, said the renovations totalled €422,000 &#8211; more than twice the 200,000-euro sum that Mr Fittipaldi revealed previously in a book that led to the leaked document charges.</p>
<p>The cardinals lawyer issued a statement saying the cleric never &#8220;gave indications or authorised&#8221; the hospital foundation to make any payments relating to his apartment.</p>
<p>The cardinal, who has insisted he paid for the renovations himself, has already sought to make amends with a 150,000-euro donation to the hospital for medical research. He stressed the donation was voluntary and not a repayment.</p>
<p>The cardinal was formerly the secretary of state, the Vatican&#8217;s number two official, under Pope Benedict XVI and for the first months of Francis&#8217; papacy. Now 81, he no longer holds any top Vatican post.</p>
<p>The trial against Mr Fittipaldi, another journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, two former officials of a papal reform commission and another defendant is set to resume next week.</p>
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