Vatican prosecutors raid Secretariat of State in financial transaction investigation
The Vatican press office, which announced the raid in a two-sentence note, did not give many details about its scope or the matter being investigated. Its statement said merely that "documents and electronic devices" had been collected with regard to transactions that took place this summer.
The raid was authorized by the Vatican's chief prosecutor, following a report on the matter from the Vatican's auditor general and officials at the Institute for the Works of Religious, commonly known as the Vatican bank, said the release.
Officials at both the Secretariat of State and the financial watchdog, known formally as the Financial Information Authority, did not immediately respond to requests for more information.
Pope Francis has made reforming the Vatican's financial system a priority of his six-year papacy, focusing on streamlining operations and bringing them up to international standards. The Vatican bank announced just a day ago that as part of those efforts, it had been able to rejoin the Single Euro Payments Area, which allows for faster bank transfers throughout Europe.
[Joshua J. McElwee is NCR Vatican correspondent.
4 comments:
Is that a real photo of the raid? What sort of resistance were they expecting?
No, just editorial license, my vivid imagination coupled with good old fashioned biblical hyperbole!
Dont worry, once they have enough to pay for that new statue and for the upcoming nativity extravaganza, the "investigation" will end.
With the crime wave we have in Atlanta---heck, someone even broke into the State Capitol the other night, of all places!---maybe we need some stronger police tactics like that! I notice up here churches sometimes locked during the day, alarm systems and cameras. But the crime wave probably has nothing to do with breakup of the family and illegitimacy, right?
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