Interesting, don’t you think?
Italian authorities have seized €23 million ($31 million Cdn) of Vatican bank assets as part of an investigation into suspected money laundering.
The Vatican said it was confused as to why financial police targeted the funds in a Vatican account at the Rome branch of the Italian bank Credito Artigiano Spa.
“The Holy See is perplexed and surprised by the initiatives of the Rome prosecutors, considering the data necessary is already available at the Bank of Italy,” the Vatican said in a statement Tuesday.
The bulk of the money seized on Tuesday — €20 million — was destined for JP Morgan in Frankfurt,
Okay then guilty!
My, my. The papacy seems to be channeling the institution in the late Middle Ages. You know the one plagued by sexual and financial scandal that presaged the Protestant Reformation. Or maybe, the current occupants have just gotten sloppy.
In 2010?