A lay employee at the Vatican Secretariat of State took a position as a director of a company involved in a lucrative but controversial London real-estate deal, just as the Vatican completed that deal, the Catholic News Agency has reported. Fabrizio Tirabassi, who was reportedly involved in a number of complex financial transfers, was suspended from his Vatican post last October, and may have been permanently dismissed; the Vatican has not identified the employees who have been disciplined, nor the measures taken against them.