Vatican Grapples With New Accusation on Finances
The Vatican is facing yet another potential financial scandal this week with allegations surfacing that its payroll agency was able to change the names and account numbers after transactions were concluded.
The eye-popping claims come from Libero Milone, who was named the first auditor-general of the Vatican by Pope Francis in 2015 before being forced to resign from that position barely two years after his appointment. Politico has reported that Milone alleges that the Vatican had access to tools that could alter the international bank account numbers like a “skeleton key for money laundering.”
“I have a piece of paper which says that they can change the transactions—they can change the name—at any time,” Milone told Politico. Such a tool could have potentially enabled money laundering in a........
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