Australian police find nothing criminal in Vatican fund transfers
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australian police said on Tuesday that they had found nothing criminal in the transfer of $US7.3 million from the Vatican to Australia between 2014 and 2020. Financial crime watchdog AUSTRAC scrutinised the transactions after Italian media reported in September that large sums of money had been sent to Australia during the trial of […]
Australian police find no crime in Vatican money transfers
Canberra, AustraliaAP Australian police said Wednesday they found no evidence of criminal misconduct in money transfers from the Vatican that a financial agency mistakenly inflated by almost $US1.8 billion and fueled corruption speculation. Australian Federal Police investigated the transfers to Australia that the country’s financial intelligence agency, Austrac, reported to the Senate in December amounted […]
Review shows Australia made huge miscalculation on funds transfers, Vatican says
Vatican CityReuters Australia’s financial watchdog has drastically reduced the sum of money it says was sent from the Vatican to Australia, the Vatican said on Wednesday, after it earlier reported a huge figure which raised suspicions of money laundering. The joint Vatican-Australian review showed only $A9.5 million transited between 2014 and 2020, a fraction of […]
Australia reviewing funds transfers after Vatican seeks clarification
Vatican CityReuters Australia’s financial watchdog is reviewing its calculation that transfers worth $US1.8 billion had been sent to the country from the Vatican since 2014, after Vatican and Australian Church calls for clarification. A senior Vatican official and an Australian bishop told Reuters last week they had no knowledge of the transfers and would be […]
Victoria Police not investigating Vatican money transfers to Australia
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Police in the Australian state of Victoria said they were not conducting any further investigation into a transfer of monies from the Vatican to Australia that they were alerted to by the financial crimes watchdog. Victoria Police said in a statement that the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) had made them […]
Australian police get information on alleged Vatican funds transfer amid Pell case
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia’s financial crimes watchdog said it had handed information to police about the alleged transfer of Vatican funds to Australia amid the prosecution of former Vatican treasurer George Pell for child sex abuse. Italian media recently reported that Pell’s nemesis, Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, sent €700,000 to Australia to help Pell’s “enemies” while […]