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Gay Prostitution Probe Rocks Vatican
2 Officials At Center Of Investigation In What Officials Call An 'Organized' Male Prostitution Ring

VATICAN CITY (CBS) ― The Vatican is at the center of a new sex scandal, this time involving two staff members being investigated for allegedly running a homosexual prostitution ring, according to media reports.

One of Pope Benedict XVI's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter's Basilica are linked to the probe, reports Reuters.

Wiretaps conducted by Italian officials originally lead to corruption charges and the prostitution allegations emerged later, the news organization reports.

Excerpts of the wiretaps and police documents published in an Italian newspaper reveal that Ghinedu Thomas Ehiem, a choir member, was in regular contact with Angelo Balducci, and the topic of conversation was gay sex, according to the BBC News. Eheim allegedly found men for Balducci, according to the report.

Balducci, who was arrested last month on corruption charges, was an usher known as a Gentleman to His Holiness.

A police document prepared for magistrates said Ehiem and another man were part of "an organised network... to abet male prostitution," according to the BBC.

Ehiem reportedly admitted to finding male sex partners for Balducci.

The BBC reports that Pope Benedict XVI is aware of the investigation.