Vatican bank accounts may close embassies after a suspicious deposits and withdrawals, Iraqi and Iranian
Vatican bank accounts may close embassies after a suspicious deposits and withdrawals, Iraqi and Iranian
01/10/2013
BAGHDAD / JD / .. The sources revealed the Vatican bank probably will close all accounts of foreign embassies after concerns about the operations of deposit and withdraw cash big missions carried out by Iraq, Iran and Indonesia.
The sources told Western news seen by / JD / that the authority of financial information which is a financial control of the Vatican, which examined the transactions in 2011, believes that the justifications embassies for withdrawals and deposits very vague or non-proportional to the amount of money that was up to 500 thousand euros in one-time .
In one case, a large sum was withdrawn and it was said that because of the renovations.
According to sources, demanding the Vatican bank – whose official name is Institute of Business religious, financial information and the authority to reduce the possibility that the bank and becomes unintentionally way to money laundering and other financial operations illegal.
The four-informed sources, that the closure of accounts is likely to be one of the key recommendations in the process of a broad review ordered by Pope Francis Bank, which is the date and tainted by financial scandals an embarrassment to the Vatican for a long time.
Is expected to be completed by year-end audit.
According to sources, the Financial Information Authority wrote to the Vatican bank in the second half of 2011, expressing concern about the withdrawal and deposit operations undertaken numerous embassies of Iran, Iraq and Indonesia.
Declined to Iraq and Iran embassies to the Vatican to comment on the movement of funds or regulatory concerns.
Indonesia’s ambassador to the Vatican St., Bahar Bodiarman, the embassy pulls up to ten thousand euros at the time of its bank account for personal uses of and for other purposes, but large amounts are transacted through bank transfers.
A spokesman for the Vatican bank by mail, if your bank does not comment on matters concerning the authority of financial information and had no comment on the possible closure of the accounts of embassies.
The authority said the financial information, it does not disclose details about the cases where verification not comment on the audit on the bank. / End / 22 /
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