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Pope Francis’ main bodyguard Domenico Giani, the security chief of the Vatican, resigned Monday over a leak to the media of details of a financial wrongdoing probe.

Francis accepted Giani’s resignation while noting he “bears no personal responsibility” for the leak, the Vatican said.

The Argentine pontiff was furious over the publication of an internal police notice which featured the photographs of five Vatican employees – including two senior figures – targeted in a probe report into a real estate deal.

The notice addressed to the Swiss guards and Vatican policemen who guard the gates of the tiny city-state, said …