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Is there any evidence that the Vatican has laundered money and if so, what was the money used for - and more importantly who was responsible for the laundering? I assume, none of the Pope’s were ever aware of it going on. Unfortunately this ‘information’ is being used to bash the church even more so. I would be interested in any comments regarding this, also I note in one of the comments against the first story someone mentioned the E100k cheque made out to St Peter’s Pence and to Pope Benedict that was in the possession of the butler when he was caught for stealing. The query being were these kind of cheques being unaccounted for within the Vatican’s financial systems. One story being that Rothschild’s has run the V Bank for 100’s of year siphoning the money of for terrorism?
*ROME – In the abstract, if one were to draw up the ideal profile of a financial expert the Vatican might enlist to help clean up its reputation as a magnet for scandal, the wish list might include the following four points:
René Brülhart (CNS photo)René Brülhart (CNS photo)Defined that way, there probably aren’t many people who would fit the bill, but the Vatican seems to have found one: a 40-year-old Swiss lawyer named René Brülhart, who for the past ten years has led anti-money laundering efforts in the tiny European principality of Liechtenstein.
Yesterday the Vatican announced that Brülhart has been hired as a consultant to help organize its response to a first-ever evaluation of the Vatican delivered in July by Moneyval, the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering agency.
That review found the Vatican “has come a long way in a very short time,” but also that serious problems remain. They include confusion about the powers of a new Financial
Information Authority created by Pope Benedict XVI, and the lack of external regulation of the Vatican Bank. *
Also:
Just one example of the corruption of the Vatican Banking system and why it should be dissolved:
deepblacklies.co.uk/hirohitos_gold.htm
“Yet this sum was just part of an even greater hoard of wealth that was hidden at the end of the war. In January 1944, when it became clear that the Allies would win the war, Privy Seal Kido called a meeting of Japan’s leading investment bankers to advise the throne on how best to preserve the wealth of the imperial family. The authors go on to reveal that in addition to large foreign investments and shareholdings, the emperor’s large portfolio of gold, silver and platinum was “held under various covers in the vaults of banks in Switzerland, Sweden, THE VATICAN, Portugal, Argentina, Spain, Britain and the United States.” The bullion that could not be laundered in time was trucked to a vast underground imperial “bunker” where it was stashed in secret. This was at Nagano, north of Tokyo, a backwater town artfully developed by Tsutsumi Yoshiaki in time for the 1998 Winter Olympics. Tsutsumi, as head of Japan’s Olympic Committee, had earlier courted Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman of the International Olympic Committee. This would later lead to sensational press stories that huge bribes had changed hands.”
Is there any evidence that the Vatican has laundered money and if so, what was the money used for - and more importantly who was responsible for the laundering? I assume, none of the Pope’s were ever aware of it going on. Unfortunately this ‘information’ is being used to bash the church even more so. I would be interested in any comments regarding this, also I note in one of the comments against the first story someone mentioned the E100k cheque made out to St Peter’s Pence and to Pope Benedict that was in the possession of the butler when he was caught for stealing. The query being were these kind of cheques being unaccounted for within the Vatican’s financial systems. One story being that Rothschild’s has run the V Bank for 100’s of year siphoning the money of for terrorism?
*ROME – In the abstract, if one were to draw up the ideal profile of a financial expert the Vatican might enlist to help clean up its reputation as a magnet for scandal, the wish list might include the following four points:
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Someone with clear secular credentials as an advocate of transparency and a leader in the fight against money laundering;
Someone who’s had experience helping a place with a shady past attain new respectability;
Someone comfortable in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural environment;
Someone who understands an idiosyncratic small state with a monarchical system of government.Yesterday the Vatican announced that Brülhart has been hired as a consultant to help organize its response to a first-ever evaluation of the Vatican delivered in July by Moneyval, the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering agency.
That review found the Vatican “has come a long way in a very short time,” but also that serious problems remain. They include confusion about the powers of a new Financial
Information Authority created by Pope Benedict XVI, and the lack of external regulation of the Vatican Bank. *
Also:
Just one example of the corruption of the Vatican Banking system and why it should be dissolved:
deepblacklies.co.uk/hirohitos_gold.htm
“Yet this sum was just part of an even greater hoard of wealth that was hidden at the end of the war. In January 1944, when it became clear that the Allies would win the war, Privy Seal Kido called a meeting of Japan’s leading investment bankers to advise the throne on how best to preserve the wealth of the imperial family. The authors go on to reveal that in addition to large foreign investments and shareholdings, the emperor’s large portfolio of gold, silver and platinum was “held under various covers in the vaults of banks in Switzerland, Sweden, THE VATICAN, Portugal, Argentina, Spain, Britain and the United States.” The bullion that could not be laundered in time was trucked to a vast underground imperial “bunker” where it was stashed in secret. This was at Nagano, north of Tokyo, a backwater town artfully developed by Tsutsumi Yoshiaki in time for the 1998 Winter Olympics. Tsutsumi, as head of Japan’s Olympic Committee, had earlier courted Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman of the International Olympic Committee. This would later lead to sensational press stories that huge bribes had changed hands.”
