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The Vatican Bank: the RCC's own money laundry

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Sid2		#61	[-]
Posts: 20457 (06/11/09 03:12 PM) Inner Guard Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Vatican records could also add to existing court documents tracing "the flow of money from the Corleone Mafia family to investments in the Vatican bank." Authorities would love to learn more about Liccio Gelli. The former Italian Black Shirt worked closely with the OSS-CIA after the war, founded the Masonic Lodge P-2, and was later linked to an attempted fascist coup in Italy. A close friend of Argentine President Juan Peron, Gelli used his Vatican connections to supply arms and back the dictator's return to power in 1973. Gelli was also a central figure in the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano, as well as the murder of banker Roberto Calvi, who helped the Vatican Bank's American monsignor Paul Marcinkus set up offshore accounts to launder the Papacy's dirty drug and other monies. [hartford-hwp.com; American Atheists Nov 27/00; vaticanbankclaims.com; atheists.org; puritans.net;mega.nu;mafiascene.com] More . . . I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.
Sid2	The Vatican's Dirty Secrets: Bribery, Money Laundering and Mafia Connections	#62	[-]
Posts: 20497 (06/14/09 04:30 AM) Inner Guard Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The Vatican appears to have an enduring vocation for Italian political and financial scandal. Secrecy and intrigue were the order of the day when American archbishop Paul Marcinkus held sway in the Bastion of Nicholas V, the medieval tower housing the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), the Vatican's central bank. The requirements of a clandestine global struggle against atheist communism may explain the choice of business partners such as Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi, whose mafia links and ruinous bankruptcies brought lasting discredit on the Catholic church three decades ago. The Vatican hoped that a goodwill payment of $240m to the creditors of Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano's would salve its conscience and erase the memory of Marcinkus's inept and dishonest banking practices. We were led to believe that a new broom, wielded by the lay banker Angelo Caloia, had since swept the premises of the IOR. The process of reform has been slower and more painful than previously thought, however, to judge by a new book, Vaticano Spa ("Vatican Ltd"), by the journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi. According to Nuzzi, despite the best efforts of Caloia, a cavalier attitude to financial ethics appears to have continued well into the 1990s, with huge political bribes being laundered through the IOR and funds donated for charitable purposes or to pay for masses for the souls of the dead being casually misappropriated by the bank's administrators. More . . . I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.
Sid2	Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination	#63	[-]
Posts: 20907 (08/15/09 06:10 AM) Inner Guard Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination - Google Search 1. Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination "25 Nov 2001 ... Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination. Law Offices Of Jonathan Levy and Thomas Dewey Easton, 29 November 2001 ..." www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/275.html 2. The economic history of the Vatican City "Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination: Law Offices Of Jonathan Levy and Thomas Dewey Easton, 29 November 2001. According to one global source, ..." www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/index-fc.html 3. Vatican Bank Claims "23 Nov 2001 ... Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination. According to one global source , the Vatican is the main destination for over $55 billion ..." www.vaticanbankclaims.com/vatpr.html 4. No. 08-16060 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ... "Case: 08-16060 01/23/2009 Page: 10 of 35 DktEntry: 6781199 ..... Money laundering can be transnational in nature, initiated in one country and finished in another. ... Vatican Bank and to its final destination in the United States. ..." www.vaticanbankclaims.com/vaticanaob.pdf 5. VATICAN WAR CRIMES LAWSUIT "Vatican Faces Legal Setbacks in US Courts, October 10, 2004 ... Vatican Bank Top Ten Money Laundering Destination · Vatican Revealed As Major Dealer in Gold ..." www.remnantofgod.org/ustashe.htm 6. Truth Provided Newsletter -Movements of Rome "Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination For Immediate Release November 23, 2001. Law Offices Of Jonathan Levy and Thomas Dewey Easton ..." www.remnantofgod.org/nl011125.htm 7. [CTRL] Rhyming Words: Wash & Stash Cash "513-528-0586 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination According to one global source, the Vatican is the main destination for over ..." www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg81037.html 8. Concordat Watch - Croatia \| Lawsuit charges that Nazi gold funded ... "Similarly firm evidence about the remaining claim of money laundering is ... As for the Ustasha Treasury's ultimate destination, Gowen concurred that it ... According to the Gowen, a top Vatican official, Monsignor Draganovic, ... [5] Ron Grossman, "Lawsuit accuses Vatican Bank of role in World War II crimes", ..." www.concordatwatch.eu/showtopic.php?kb_header_id=6151 9. Vatican Bank: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article "Istituto per le Opere di Religione - IOR) commonly known as Vatican Bank is ..... The definition of money laundering is dependent on the jurisdiction in which ... to conceal the identity, source, or destination of illegally gained money. ... It was established on April 10, 1941, after the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was ..." www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Vatican_Bank 10. Lawsuit charges that Nazi gold funded Vatican ratlines \| National ... "21 Sep 2007 ... His suit claims that the Vatican Bank and the Franciscans helped members of a brutal, ... As for the Ustasha Treasury's ultimate destination, ... According to the Gowen, a top Vatican official charged with ... and that the Vatican Bank's money laundering scheme violated no international law. ..." www.secularism.org.uk/lawsuitchargesthatnazigoldfunded.html 11. portland imc - 2005.04.19 - New Pope is a Former Nazi "Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination According to one global source, the Vatican is the main destination for over $55 billion in ..." portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/315834.shtml 12. Benedict eager to modernise arcane world of Vatican Bank - Times ... "18 Sep 2006 ... The target of Benedict's strategy is the Vatican Bank, properly called ... and money-laundering that Signor Caloia was brought in to clean up. ... the Vatican closed its 2005 budget with a surplus of nearly €10 million. .... Corsica is an island of beauty and contrast, an ideal holiday destination ..." business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article642293.ece 13. Vatican City: MONEY LAUNDERING "Table 2.13: Top 20 Destinations of laundered money (Walker 1999). Rank Destination Amount ... 8 Vatican City 80 2,8. 9 Luxembourg 78 2,8. 10 France 68 2,4 ... Western Sahara, Somalia, West Bank/Gaza Strip, Afghanistan, Burundi ..." www.sachhiem.net/SACHNGOAI/Suutam.php 14. Explosive Revelations by Lucy Komisar "Top Clearstream officials were fired. The scandal made headlines in big ... The bank laundered drug-and arms-traffficking money for the Italian and American mafias and, in the '80s, channeled Vatican money to the Contras in Nicaragua and ... A Clearstream insider gave Backes 10 years worth of these records. ..." www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Banks/Explosive_Revelations.html 15. In These Times * Explosive Revelation$ "15 Mar 2002 ... On top of that, it deliberately has put in place a system to hide many of ... accounts camouflaged the destinations of transfers to Colombian banks. ... The bank laundered drug- and arms-trafficking money for the Italian ... the Vatican Bank, now lives in Sun City, Arizona with a Vatican passport; ..." www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/10/feature1_1.shtml 16. Goldfinger - Rome steals U.S. Gold Reserves!! "Vatican bank has Nazi gold!! Vatican Revealed As Major Dealer in Gold!! Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destinations! ..." www.reformation.org/goldfinger.html 17. Global money laundering "Top 20 Flows of Laundered Money. Rank, Origin, Destination, Amount ($Usmill/yr ... 10, Italy, Vatican City, 55056, 1.9%. 11, Germany, Germany, 47202, 1.7% ... "More than $2bill is laundered in Poland each year" (National Bank of Poland, ..." www.johnwalkercrimetrendsanalysis.com.au/ML%20method.htm 18. Global Politician - Money Laundering in A Changed World "If you shop with a major bank, chances are that all the transactions in your account are ... In retrospect, as far as money laundering goes, September 11 may be ... The transferred funds are re-assembled in their destination and often ... with the laxer anti-money-laundering laws in force in 1998 at 10 billion US ..." www.globalpolitician.com/2746-money-laundering 19. Money-laundering Ring Broken up in S China "Police in south China say they have broken up an underground bank that ... sent 10 billion yuan (1.46 billion U.S. dollars) of laundered criminal cash ... They also froze 327 banking accounts involved in the money-laundering case ... USSR ( former), Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State (Holy See) ... Destinations ..." english.cri.cn/6909/2009/08/10/1821s507870.htm 20. qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmqwerty uiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmqwertyuiopasd ... "laundering money. At first they find a bank in a foreign country which is lenient in their banking laws and they strike some deals .... Top ten flows of money laundering. (table. 8. ) Rank Origin. Destination ... 10. Italy. Vatican City ..." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1368886_code1209363.pdf?abstractid=1368886&mirid=1 I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.
Sid2		#64	[-]
Posts: 21671 (10/21/09 05:10 AM) Inner Guard Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	A secret society called the Illuminati has been a topic of conspiracy theorists for decades. The Illuminati do exist, said attorney Jonathan Levy. At the center of a murder mystery is a man by the name of Paul Marcinkus, who lived right here in the Valley. Marcinkus was once a Papal guard, Archbishop and President of the Vatican Bank, which is how he knew fellow Italian banker Roberto Calvir. "They very well were the Illuminati, at least in Italy -- powerful people behind the scenes, operating in secrecy," said Levy, who has been in a legal battle with the Vatican for years. In 1982, Calvi was found hanged from the Blackfriar's bridge in London. It was staged to look like a suicide. Calvi was connected to the disappearance of more than $1.2 billion, much of it belonging to the Vatican and the Illuminati. Eventually, five people were charged with his death in Rome. Marcinkus was also indicted for Calvis murder, but he never had to answer for it. He eluded questioning with help from the Vatican, and he retired here to Sun City with full diplomatic immunity granted by the church, which means all attempts to extradite him were denied. He never spoke to reporters, investigators or members of his congregation at St. Clement of Rome in Sun City. "I thought it was kind of tasteless the way people would come up to him in the sacristy and say, 'What really happened back then?'" said Paul Yoder, the church's choir instructor. "And he'd just kind of smile and change the subject." The Phoenix Archdiocese refused to speak to 5 Investigates about Marcinkus; however, it did release a statement: "Those priests who knew him in his retirement are not going to go on camera and speculate about rumor and innuendo that they know nothing about." And so the mystery remains unsolved. "I think (Marcinkus) was a true foot soldier of the church," Yoder said. "We stand a much better chance of finding out about the Kennedy assassination." I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.
Sid2		#65	[-]
Posts: 21818 (11/04/09 12:16 PM) Inner Guard Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	What do these events have to do with the apparitions themselves? It is claimed that Roberto Calvi, the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, dubbed by the press as "God's Banker", was involved with Medjugorje. Calvi had a close association with the Vatican. When his bank collapsed in one of Italy's biggest modern political scandals, shortly afterwards, Calvi allegedly committed suicide in London in June 1982 - a conclusion that has now officially been overturned into "murder". It is claimed that Calvi, at the time of his death, was in the possession of a briefcase, in which there was evidence of money being transferred to Medjugorje. Seeing Calvi was so close to the Vatican, was Calvi indeed used to transfer money to the Croatian Catholics? This scenario lends credence to Serbian claims, which had branded the Vatican policy as "dishonest and untrustworthy" and was convinced that Opus Dei and the papal nuncio in Zagreb, Guilio Einaudi, had enabled Croatia to equip a new national army with an arsenal of modern weaponry. Serbia even alleged that Father Stanislav Crnica, the Opus Dei regional vicar in Zagreb, had direct access to President Franjo Tudjman's office. So, at present, it is clear that the apparitions in Medjugorje were used by local politicians to rally the Catholic cause, both religious but specifically military. And the Vatican's interest in Medjugorje does not seem to date from 1986, but from day one of the apparitions. More . . . I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.
Sid2		#66	[-]
Posts: 21975 (11/21/09 07:04 AM) Inner Guard Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	These neo-fascist activities would come to prominence in the early eighties following the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano and the death of Italian banker, Roberto Calvi who was "suicided" and left hanging under London's Blackfriars bridge. This would lead to sensational disclosures about the role of the Vatican bank, the IOR, in Calvi's financial empire and would quickly grow to include the activities of Mafia financier, Michele Sindona - who's activities, in turn, would implicate leading blue-blood banks in Europe and America in Mafia activities. Both Sindona and Calvi were close to Opus Dei who lost around $55 million when Sindona's empire crashed. According to his family, Roberto Calvi was deeply engrossed in helping Opus Dei take control of the IOR when he was killed. More . . . I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.
Sid2		#67	[-]
Posts: 22009 (11/21/09 10:34 PM) Inner Guard Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	SMOM and P-2 Freemasonry generally purports to be hostile to Catholicism, and conversely, the Vatican has at various times forbidden Catholics to join Masonic organizations. Nevertheless, in December of 1969 an exclusive meeting was held in the Rome office of Count Umberto Ortolani, the Ambassador of the Order of Malta to Uruguay, who has been called "the brains" behind the fascist P-2 Masonic Lodge, which had been established in the mid-1960s.20 In addition to Ortolani, the meeting included only Licio Gelli, Roberto Calvi, and Michele Sindona.21 Gelli had fought for Franco (who was himself a Bailiff Grand Cross of SMOM) with Mussolini's troops during the Spanish Civil War. He was a committed fascist during WW II and at the end of the war was wanted by the partisans for collaborating with the Nazis. After the war he developed extensive interests in Latin America where he became close friends with the Argentinean dictator Juan Peron; he was also the Grand Master of P-2.22 Calvi had fought on the Eastern front during the war and was decorated by the Nazis. At the time of the 1969 meeting he was a senior officer at Banco Ambrosiano. Sindona had set up business in 1943 with the help of Vito Genovese, whose Mafia contacts facilitated the American landing on Sicily. By 1948 Sindona had received a letter of introduction to Vatican intelligence operative Montini [later pope .... JP]. Page 35 According to Larry Gurwin's The Calvi Affair, One of Sindona's first steps in cultivating the Vatican's money men occurred in the late 1950s when through a priest, he met Prince Massimo Spada, a Vatican nobleman and the senior layman at IOR. [Massimo Spada had become a Knight of Malta on September 21, 1944. IOR, the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (Institute for Religious Works), known generally as the Vatican Bank, was created in 1942 by Pius XII.] At the same time he nurtured his friendship with Giovanni Montini, who had become cardinal-archbishop of Milan in 1954. In 1959 Montini needed to raise a large sum of money for an old people's home, and he turned to Sindona for help. Sindona reportedly raised $2 million in a single day. In 1960 Sindona purchased a small Milanese bank called Banca Privata and, thanks to his Vatican friendships, it soon began receiving deposits from IOR. Three years later Montini was elected Pope Paul VI and Sindona's Vatican connections were unbeatable. More . . . I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.
Sid2		#68	[-]
Posts: 22051 (11/24/09 09:12 PM) Inner Guard Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The Vatican Bank, officially known as the Institute for Religious Works, has an impenetrable organisation, with three separate boards of directors. It also boasts another curious feature: it is said to be "never audited" hence, funds deposited there may simply vanish without a trace. Furthermore, the Vatican Bank denies that it has any records from the World War period, and even maintains that it adopts the remarkable practice of destroying all of its records every ten years. Nonetheless, other records do exist in German and American archives, and these indicate that what is being claimed for Croatia in fact happened in Germany. There the records show Nazi transfers of funds from the Reichsbank to the Vatican Bank and further transfers of funds from the Vatican Bank to Nazi-controlled banks in Switzerland. In other words, the Vatican Bank appears to have acted as an intermediary in order to help spirit Nazi gold from Germany to the safe haven of secret Swiss bank accounts, where it would then be available to fund the ratlines, without leaving any trace. The Holocaust survivors must try to prove that the Vatican Bank laundered the proceeds of the Ustasha genocide in Croatia in a similar manner. There is only one known witness to the Vatican and Franciscan money laundering: former US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent William Gowen. According to his deposition, Vatican official Fr. Krunoslav Draganovic admitted to Gowen that he received up to ten truckloads of loot in 1946 at the Franciscan controlled Croatian Confraternity of San Girolamo in Rome. Gowen also testified that the leader of the treasure convoy, Ustasha Colonel Ivan Babic, boasted to Gowen of using British uniforms and trucks to move the gold from Northern Italy to Rome. As for the Ustasha Treasury's ultimate destination, Gowen concurred that it could have gone nowhere but the Vatican Bank. More . . . I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.

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