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Vatican's "Monsignor 500" Re-Arrested Amid Money Laundering Allegations
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano - dubbed "Monsignor 500" after his favorite bank-note - who is already on trial for allegedly plotting to smuggle 20 million euros from Switzerland to Italy, was arrested Tuesday in a separate case for allegedly using his Vatican accounts to launder a further 7 million euros. As AP reports, police said they seized 6.5 million euros in real estate and bank accounts Tuesday, including Scarano's luxurious Salerno apartment, filled with gilt-framed oil paintings, ceramic vases and other fancy antiques. A local priest was also placed under house arrest and a notary public was suspended for alleged involvement in the money-laundering plot. Police said in all, 52 people were under investigation. Have no fear though, for his lawyer, "has good faith that the money came from legitimate donations."
Scarano's lawyer, Silverio Sica, said his client merely took donations from people he thought were acting in good faith to fund a home for the terminally ill. He conceded, however, that Scarano used the money to pay off a mortgage.
"We continue to strongly maintain the good faith of Don Nunzio Scarano and his absolute certainty that the money came from legitimate donations," Sica told The Associated Press.
The Salerno investigation was already under way when Scarano was arrested in June in Rome on the smuggling accusations.
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Police and Sica described the laundering plot as follows: Scarano allegedly withdrew 555,248 euros from his Vatican account in cash in 2009 and brought it into Italy. Since he couldn't deposit it in an Italian bank without drawing suspicion, he selected 50 friends to accept 10,000 euros apiece in cash in exchange for a check or wire transfer in that same amount.
The money then went to pay off a mortgage on a Salerno property held in the name of a company Scarano partly owned.
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The Vatican's top prosecutor said last week that the Holy See had responded to two official requests from Italy for information about Scarano's accounts, while making its own request to Italian authorities for help in its own money-laundering investigation of him.
The Vatican's own investigation into Scarano's banking activity showed that some 7 million euros had come into and out of his Vatican accounts over the past decade.
The Vatican's documentation arrived on Salerno prosecutors desks in recent weeks, leading to his re-arrest on Tuesday, Italian media reported.
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Scarano's initial arrest in the smuggling case was reduced to house arrest because of his ailing health. Sica said the prelate would serve the new arrest warrant also under house arrest.
In the Rome smuggling case, prosecutors say Scarano, a financier and a carabinieri officer devised an elaborate plot to transport 20 million euros in a private jet from Switzerland to Italy avoid paying customs duties. The plot fell apart because the financier reneged at the last minute.
Sica has said Scarano in that case was merely acting as a middleman.
So now we are losing faith and trust in our priests? Wht next - losing faith in central bankers?
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It would appear the Vatican has yet to reach Satoshi conciousness.....
at least Pope got some Davos insightz for da meek 'bout rich n poor....
Now there's less money for Pope Francis to redistribute.
Well, at least its only filthy lucre and not filthy rectums that the Catholic Church is famous for redistributing.
Cool, cause that guy is costing us a fortune.
"...and a notary public was suspended..."
Shit's gettin real
Hey fonestar, you really ought to admit there is a certain, er, charm, to those 500 euro notes. I love 'em...
Wipe your mouth Fonestar, you still have some of Satoshi's DNA in the corners.
He pissed someone off apparently.
Doing God's work no doubt.
and he needs money!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r-e2NDSTuE
<----------"The Lord loves a workin' man and don't trust whitey".
<----------"See a doctor and get rid of it"
Hi Gooch, Any suggestions for what to do about the itchy area between my anus and testicles?
Are you out of Ointment already ?
Father Phleger, South Side.
Now that's funny.
So is 00 buckshot until it's your appendage.
Or your child.
Nothing funny about getting hit with buckshot. A homo that calls himself priest licking my ass is.
somebody musta confessed
A couple of isolated incidents that took place only for a brief period of time, I'm sure. Read nothing further into this.
Yep. It was only a couple years. It shows what govts care about enforcing too. The clergy can molest ad rape children, and maybe be transferred as punishment. But deny the govt their tax dollars and they will take your ass down. Catholics and the govt deserve each other. Enjoy what you have helped create for centuries.
....and the holy war of words starts in 3....2.....2 1/2.....1 3/4........1.....
Bah, Lord's prayer + a couple Hail Marys and a little larger brown envelope this time, and all will be forgiven.
Too ( $$$ ) Legit to Quit.
The Catholic Church - ripping off the poor for 2 millenia......
And that's not the worst they are responsible for.
You've confused the Church with the actions of individual men.
Utter crap - the church covers it all up.
Look at the cardinals - all living in poverty to help the poor. Don't make me laugh.
Any decent god would have got rid of the lot long ago.
"Look at the cardinals - all living in poverty to help the poor. Don't make me laugh."
No more hypocracy than American liberals, look at global warming Al Gore with his private jets or the redistributionist Obama taking muti-million dollar vacations.
No less, either.
It's hypocrisy, one bunch of hypocirtes can't be used to justify another bunch of hypocirtes.
Think before you type, please.
Oh. yes, and turn on spell check.
Don't need a spell checker fool. hypocracy is a democracy governed by hypocrites. The difference is the Hypocrites in any given Church don't govern me or make laws that fuck me over.
For you to insult me, first I must value your opinion.
I notice you didn't mention thinking before typing - try it, if you are capable of rational thought.
Quiet bitch, you would feel insulted all day long by me simply telling you truths. There should be a law against this.
You can't fight your own battles so you need a law?
WTF??
I don't think ZH is the place for you.
I will not be wasting my time responding to anything more you have to say on this subject.
I'm only toying with you. If you think you can outsmart me you should think again. I will destroy all your illusions and make you cry in the end.
Since when are "American Liberals" or for that fact "Conservatives" in the business of "Saving Your Eternal Soul"?
---Utter crap - the church covers it all up.---
Not the entire Church. You condemn all based on the actions of a few.
The actions of a few? Negative. It may not be all of them, or even a majority of them, but it is enough of them. They have gotten away with rampant rape and corruption for centuries though, in no small part due to people like you defending them. All priests don't molest little boys or steal money, but enough do so to make leaving your children under their care about as responsible as letting them go to a sleepover at Jerry sandusky's house.
Define a "Few".
Over 400 at last count.
I see Scarano's lawyer is using the old Father Ted defence there.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/quotes?item=qt0415387
I've tried to debate Fonestar on every intellectual level.
He's all of 30 something years old. He'll just have to find out for himself.
I'm guessing you'd do better debating a wall.
Think like his mom.
Tell him to behave or he looses his computer time
His name was Robot Trader.
Apparently he's Canadian ehhh, she doesn't want to deal with him either, its either this or...
Its his Mom's fault!
(Something Freudian this way comes)
Seems "Business as Usual" for the Catholic Church, along with all their "little secrets" that are too important / too revealing for "the rest of us" to see.
Add in the real purpose of the many Inquisitions - nothing more than a very effective land / asset grab under the guise of "religious enforcement", and it bcomes rather clear that this particular branch of organised Religion is more about "Spreading the Word" in order to "harvest the revenue", a job that they are evidently very good at.
Can't remember the name of the author - I think it was a pseudonym anyway - but a really interesting read I came across a few years ago is called 'Vatican Billions' - worth a read if you want to understand why the world is the way it is. Lots of pieces to the puzzle
And the Church just collects and doesn't help the poor, right?
@ JLee2027
Nope, they do spread! They collect 10 and just retain a meager 3 over times...
@Jlee, they spread the wealth around all right, no one is saying they don't. They spread that wealth around to a shit load of lawyers, on both sides of the lawsuit. They also spread millions to poor unsuspecting families, who all they had to do to receive the benevolent money of the Catholic Church was trust their priests alone with their child, and get millions. Talk about spreading the wealth. The diocese of Stockton spread so much wealth around to the 'poor' they went bankrupt! Pope Francis should applaud them
THE VATICAN BILLIONS
by Avro Manhattan
Chapter 1
-The Historical Genesis of the Vatican’s Accumulation of Wealth
-Historical genesis of the Vatican’s accumulation of wealth
-The splitting of Christianity accelerated by its policy of temporal riches
-Christianity expropriates all rival religions
-How the Apostolic tradition of poverty was abandoned.
Jesus, the founder of Christianity, was the poorest of the poor.
Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?
It is a question that has echoed along the somber corridors of history during almost 2,000 years; a question that has puzzled, bewildered and angered in turn untold multitudes from the first centuries to our days.
The startling contradiction of the tremendous riches of the Roman Catholic Church with the direct teaching of Christ concerning their unambiguous rejection, is too glaring to be by-passed, tolerated or ignored by even the most indifferent of believers. In the past, indeed, some of the most virulent fulminations against such mammonic accumulation came from individuals whose zeal and religious fervor were second to none. Their denunciations of the wealth, pomp, luxury and worldly habits of abbots, bishops, cardinals and popes can still be heard thundering with unabated clamor at the opening of almost any page of the chequered annals of western history.
[...] Read it online here or grab a pdf copy.Hey, those widows' mites start to add up after awhile!
It seems the guy can't help himself.
For fuck's sakes, why do I have to ask the obvious questions...
If the Vatican is a sovereign state -- and it IS -- then they can "launder" all they want. And it isn't even "laundering" when a sovereign does it.
Case in point, when a Sovereign creates fiat currency out of thin air.
Ditto for the "City of London"
Ditto JPM, HSBC.......
Good point Captain Kirk. They do seem to have a lot of cash sloshing around, possibly needing a good cleaning.
The good Monsignor was laundering for his own account, not for the Pope's.
Meh, it's a tad "unseemly" for a Christian church to be laundering drug & gun munny for some less than "saintly" people, don't ya think?
The Lord does works in mysterious ways! Lol!
Anyone remember Roberto Calvi - God's Banker?
Had a visit from the pope's enforcer cardinal a few hours before being found hanging under a bridge.
I'm betting a lot of loose ends were dealt with there.
I'ts quite the story - worth some research.
Seems that God's Bankers have a tradition of being "left hanging"... Going all the way back to Judas Iscariot.
Front-running 'divine justice'?
thank god someone remembers banco ambrosiano.
the really nice touches were the cash and rocks in the pockets and feet in the water.
---Anyone remember Roberto Calvi - God's Banker? Had a visit from the pope's enforcer cardinal a few hours before being found hanging under a bridge.---
What nonsense. He was killed by the Mob, not a Cardinal.
Roberto Calvi (13 April 1920 – 17 June 1982), a native of Milan, was the chairman of Italy's second largest private bank, Banco Ambrosiano. He was an Italian banker dubbed "God's Banker" by the press because of his close association with the Holy See. The bank collapse was one of modern Italy's biggest political scandals. His body was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London.
http://vatileaks.blogspot.com/2012/05/vatican-banco-ambrosiano-roberto-calvi.html
http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/operation_gladio.htm
Funny they won't permit money laundering but they will permit pedophile laundering.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/01/21/abuse-files-for-30-chicago-priest...
God is gay god is a con man ! Look at he's servants!
God isn't perfect, it shows in his work!
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs5/i/2008/215/3/d/Baphomet_by_MSDesigns.jpg
+100 to the Tylers for their homage to Michaelangelo!
Sociopaths and other pathological liars should just stick to the banking industry and leave the aged, the sick, and the pensioners alone.
This POS only has one god (€€€€€€).
in god we trust all others pay cash
a baptist preacher, a priest, and a rabbi are having a theological discussion...
more like vati-cannot launder money anymore bitches!
Oh, the vati - can and the vati- will.
They are just short a couple more scapegoats, then it can be back to a business they've been in for nearly 2000 years.
Name another (According to you) "corrupt", "lying", "murdering", "pedophile", "stealing from the poor" organization that has survived for 2,000 years. You can't.
Because you are full of shit.
Time for him to molest a boy and do a magical redirect ala David Blaine....Twaaaaa!
vatican banks are the money laundering arm of the bush crime syndicate.....they launder the massive drug trade from afghanistan which is distributed from nato bases to western europe and the usa thanks to the us coast guard...
P2 REDUX
Quick! Somebody make Nunzio an offer he can't refuse!
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