13-12-2010, 09:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-12-2010, 10:08 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Ed Jewett Wrote:Investigators Suspect Vatican Bank Used Clergy to Act ‘As Fronts for Corrupt Businessmen and Mafia’
December 13th, 2010 Via: Independent:
The Vatican Bank is under new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize €23m (£19.25m) in September.
The Vatican calls the seizure of assets a “misunderstanding” and expresses optimism it will be quickly cleared up. But fresh court documents show that prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted anti-laundering laws “with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the capital”. The documents also reveal investigators’ suspicions that clergy may have acted as fronts for corrupt businessmen and Mafia.
The documents pinpoint two transactions that have not been reported: one in 2009 involving the use of a false name, and another in 2010 in which the Vatican Bank withdrew €650,000 from an Italian bank account but ignored bank requests to disclose where the money was headed.
The new allegations of financial impropriety could not come at a worse time for the Vatican, already hit by revelations that it sheltered paedophile priests. The corruption probe has given new hope to Holocaust survivors who tried unsuccessfully to sue in the United States, alleging that Nazi loot was stored in the Vatican Bank.
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Ha ha ha!, 'Ya gotta love it, if you know about the Vatican and 'banking'!...not to mention pedophilia or the Holocaust and WWII. What a small 'nation' with a huge illegal and ugly 'footprint' in crime and international criminal behaviors....... Certainly 'god' will sort this all out.....
tickyman: Sorry to all Catholics here, but to me as anachronistic as the British or other monarchies....a fossil of the past - and not a benevolent one. Best sent to the Society for Creative Anachronisms and left at that....deleted as a real and relevant entity, IMO....along with most other 'organized' religions [most something like organized crime - but this one take the 'cake'].
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass