ROME
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ROME, Italy (AFP) – A senior cleric arrested last week is suspected of acting as a front for suspicious payments made through the Vatican bank from Monaco, Italian newspapers reported on Wednesday, citing leaked documents.
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano “is a real screen in front of the actual economic beneficiary of the operation and he interrupts the traceability of the money,” said one financial police document, quoted by the Corriere della Sera daily.
The investigators allege that Scarano had used Vatican bank accounts to make transfers on behalf of his friends, including an attempt to move 20 million euros ($26 million) on behalf of a Neapolitan shipowning family.
Scarano’s lawyers have rejected the charges.
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