The Vatican is facing allegations it used a “skeleton key for money laundering” by illegally manipulating bank transfers.
The city state’s former top financial cop ― who was forced out in 2017 ― has claimed that its payroll agency was able to alter the names and account numbers on transactions after they were made, masking the identity of recipients and senders.
The implication would be enormous because it would have made it possible for Vatican officials to wire funds to private clients without revealing who they were, possibly enabling unlimited money laundering and violating the most basic anti-fraud rules.
Gotta launder what you can when you can, it’s expensive to keep covering up for all the pedophiles in the organization (unless you have the FBI doing it for you on the taxpayers’ dime). It raises some eyebrows when you just walk into a bank carrying hundreds of millions of dollars in gold that mysteriously disappeared about 80 years ago.
Religious people doing shady stuff? Oh wow
Wow, it’s like you can’t trust a thing they say.
Obligatory Pope Rap by Trevor Moore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxjrHPHypA
