Vatican cleric, two others arrested in bank investigation

[dimbear]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/28/us-vatican-bank-arrests-idUSBRE95R07U20130628

(Reuters) - A Vatican cleric, a member of Italy's secret services and a financial broker were arrested on Friday as part of an Italian investigation into the Vatican bank, a police source and a lawyer said.

The cleric, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, worked as an accountant in the Vatican's financial administration. He was arrested in a parish in Rome's outskirts, his lawyer Silverio Sica told Reuters.

Scarano was suspended from his duties several weeks ago when he was placed under investigation by magistrates in the southern city of Salerno, his home town.

In that investigation, Scarano was accused of taking some 600,000 euros ($780,200) in cash out of an account in the Vatican bank a little at a time, usually 10,000 euros, and giving it to friends who gave him checks.

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Again, the Augean stables come to mind.

BTW, caveat internautae, it is I think being wrongly reported that Scarano is a bishop. Rather, monsignor.

[dimbear]

1. Update on this story: now suspected of plotting to transport 20 million Euros.

Getting out of the peanut gallery into the big time.

http://www.pressherald.com/life/religionandvalues/vatican-grapples-with-new-scandal-at-central-bank_2013-06-29.html

[Warren Stupidity]

2. I'm pretty sure that there is nothing to the allegations. The 20M Euros miraculously appeared.

In other words: god did it.

[dimbear]

3. Vatican arrests mark new hard line:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vatican-bank-arrests-mark-new-hard-line-8679990.html

A very sympathetic evaluation of the efforts by Pope Francis to clean up (you guessed it) the Augean stables.