Priest charged with money laundering in Vatican Bank probe

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/priest-charged-money-laundering-vatican-bank-probe-2D11958378

Reuters
Jan. 21, 2014

The Vatican Bank scandal is spreading.

Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a former top Vatican accountant now on trial for an alleged plot to smuggle 20 million euros from Switzerland into Italy, was further charged on Tuesday with laundering millions through the Vatican bank, his lawyer said.

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A police statement said millions of euros in "false donations" from offshore companies moved through Scarano's accounts at the Vatican bank, formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion.

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