The Vatican Bank is again under new scrutiny involving money-laundering. Prosecutors say the Vatican Bank deliberately flouted anti-laundering laws "with the aim of hiding the ownership, destination and origin of the capital"
Police suspect the clergy acted as fronts for corrupted businessmen and the Mafia as the list of account holders is secret and number 45,000 !
In 1986, a Vatican banker died from cyanide-laced coffee in prison. Another was found hanged under London's Blackfriars Bridge in 1982 and the incident was the inspiration for The Godfather 3.
### In another case, police uncovered money laundering involving a Vatican Bank account by a priest in whose uncle was convicted of association with the Mafia.
Due to the Vatican's status as an independent state........... In the 1980s, prosecutors could not arrest bank head Paul Marcinkus.
### Even new bank chairman Gotti Tedeschi and the bank's number two, Paolo Cipriani, are under investigation for money-laundering.
Wow
the popes have been morally bankrupt for hundreds of years liao..........
in the middle ages when the Medici Family was the most powerful banking family in Italy...........the popes would use the collected tithes to get into loansharking operations headed by the Medicis.............
profits were given to the popes as ''gifts'' so the the popes are allowed to keep them.........
it is estimated that the Vatican has TRILLIONS....................either in USD or Euro.........