¿Os imaginaís que quiebra El Vaticano? :)

¿Los trajes han sido el fin de Camps?
¿El GAL fue el fin de Gonzalez?
..........
La sinvergonsonería triunfa enola

Piris me ha llegado esto,

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/08/us-vatican-laundering-idUSBRE82710J20120308

By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY | Thu Mar 8, 2012 12:13pm EST

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has for the first time appeared on the State Department's list of money-laundering centers but the tiny city-state is not rated as a high-risk country.

The 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report was made public on Wednesday and Washington's list of 190 countries classifies them in three categories: of primary concern, of concern and monitored.

The Vatican is in the second category, grouped with 67 other nations including Poland, Egypt, Ireland, Hungary and Chile.

It was added to the list because it was considered vulnerable to money-laundering and had recently established programs to prevent it, a State Department official said.

"To be considered a jurisdiction of concern merely indicates that there is a vulnerability to a financial system by money launderers. With the large volumes of international currency that goes through the Holy See, it is a system that makes it vulnerable as a potential money-laundering center," Susan Pittman of the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, told Reuters.

Last year, the Vatican adapted internal laws to comply with international standards on financial crime.

The Vatican is seeking inclusion on the European Commission's so-called "white list" of states who comply with international standards against tax fraud and money-laundering. A decision on its inclusion is expected in June.

"Our aim is to make the 'white list' and we are happy that we have been put in the State Department's less vulnerable category," a Vatican official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The category of most vulnerable centers includes all members of the Group of Eight countries, including the United States, Germany, Italy and Russia, because the size of their economies and banking systems can facilitate money-laundering. It also includes small centers such as Britain's Channel Islands.

The State Department's methodology is different from that of the Financial Action Task Force's International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG), which concentrates on a nation's compliance with international law and money-laundering regulations.

VATICAN BANK HAS SCANDALOUS PAST

The Vatican Bank, founded in 1942 by Pope Pius XII, has been in the spotlight since September 2010 when Italian investigators froze 23 million euros ($33 million) in funds in Italian banks after opening an investigation into possible money-laundering.

The bank said it did nothing wrong and was just transferring funds between its own accounts. The money was released in June 2011 but the investigation is continuing.

The Vatican's new financial transparency laws set up internal regulations to make sure its bank and all other departments adhere to international regulations and standards, and cooperate with foreign authorities.

Two months ago, Italian newspapers published leaked internal letters which appeared to show a conflict among top Vatican officials about just how transparent the bank should be about dealings that took place before it enacted its new laws.

The Vatican Bank was formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) and was entangled in the collapse 30 years ago of Banco Ambrosiano, with its lurid allegations about money-laundering, freemasons, mafiosi and the mysterious death of Ambrosiano chairman Roberto Calvi - "God's banker".

(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Robert Woodward

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256954/Vatican-visitors-forced-use-cash-credit-card-ban-city-state-falls-foul-EU-legislation.html

Un abrazo Piris¡ xd:)

Cash only at the Vatican: Credit card ban in Holy See after city-state falls foul of EU money laundering legislation
Vatican falls foul of anti-money laundering safeguards
Bank of Italy pulled authorisation earlier this week
City-state authorities say they are 'scrambling' to solve the problem
By SAM WEBB
PUBLISHED: 03:31 GMT, 4 January 2013 | UPDATED: 09:58 GMT, 4 January 2013
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Anyone heading to the Vatican had better pray they have enough cash with them after a move to block credit card payments.
The city-state can only take notes and coins for museum tickets and other services after Italy's central blanks stopped electronic payments.
That is because Deutsche Bank Italia - which until now provided the service - has ruled that the Vatican does not fully comply with EU safeguards against money laundering.
As a result Italian banks are not authorised to operate within the Vatican, which is trying to improve methods to battle laundering.

Card rejected: Ben Kiniry, of Texas, gets cash from an ATM machine along Rome's Via della Conciliazione, the main road leading to the Vatican. Italy's central bank decided to block electronic payments, including credit cards, at the tiny city-state
The Vatican says it is 'scrambling' to solve the problem for thousands of visitors who flock to its very popular museums and attractions, such as the Sistine Chapel.
Tourists in the long queues that snaked around the Vatican City walls today were not happy about the inconvenience.

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Italian Giuseppe Amoruso said: 'It's certainly a disadvantage. Credit cards provide a useful service, which needs to be accessible to everybody, everywhere.'
American tourist Fluger William Hunter said: 'A lot of tourists don't have cash on them, so they have to get euros and don't know where to get them.'
The central bank said a routine inspection found that Deutsche Bank Italia had not sought authorisation when it first started providing services at the Vatican.
When it finally did, the Bank of Italy turned it down because the Vatican's banking norms, including measures to combat money laundering, did not meet Italy's more stringent criteria.
The Vatican has been striving to upgrade its measures to detect and discourage money laundering, hiring a Swiss expert just a few months ago.

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