Vatican bank mafia link? prosecutors investigate priest'saccount for money laundering
Vatican bank mafia link? prosecutors investigate priest'saccount for money laundering Business,Business News,Business Opportunities ANTI Mafia prosecutors have asked the secretive Vatican Bank todisclose details of an account held by a priest in connection witha money laundering and fraud investigation, it has emerged. The official request was made more than a month ago but so far theVatican Bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, hasrefused to disclose any records of the account held by father NinniTreppiedi – who is currently suspended from serving as apriest. Investigators want to know more about vast sums of money that are said to have passed through his account toestablish if they were money laundering operations by on the run Mafia Godfather, Matteo Messina Denaro. The reports emerged in the Italian media and came just two weeksafter the head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, wassacked amid claims of power struggles and corruption within theH...