Vatican Bank Probe Leads to Three Arrests

By Gilles Castonguay
Wall Street Journal
June 28, 2013

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ROME—Italian financial police Friday detained a Vatican accountant, a financial broker and a former member of the country’s secret services in connection with an alleged plot to smuggle millions in cash into Italy. The investigation—involving ˆ20 million ($26.1 million) allegedly secreted in a Swiss bank—comes just months after Pope Francis took office pledging to clean [...]