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The Vatican has hired a Swiss anti-money-laundering expert to advise it as it moves into a new phase of trying to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
The announcement Tuesday came two months after the Holy See passed a key European financial transparency test, but received failing grades for its financial watchdog agency and its bank, long the source of some of the Vatican’s more storied scandals.
The Vatican said attorney Rene Bruelhart, 40, would help strengthen the Vatican’s regulatory framework as it moves to implement the recommendations from the Council of Europe’s Moneyval committee, which evaluated the Holy See’s financial trustworthiness.
For eight years Bruelhart was head of Liechtenstein’s financial intelligence unit — the national agency that analyzes information about suspect financial transactions. In 2010, he was also named head of the Egmont Group, the informal group of about 130 countries’ financial units aimed at sharing information.
In his new role, Bruelhart will have to tackle some of the serious problems singled out by the Moneyval inspectors concerning the Vatican bank and its financial oversight agency, created amid much fanfare in 2010 to try to respond for international demands for greater transparency. [more]
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This is good, but who is going to pay this guy’s salary? It wouldn’t be coming out of parishioners’ weekly contributions, would it?
Where else would it come from, Recovering? The pope and the other members of the hierarchy don’t have any money of their won. Get real.
No kidding, Jim!
Let’s see – Jesus didn’t have a money-laundering bank, Jesus didn’t protect child molesters, Jesus didn’t have a summer palace… tell me aagain why we can’t have women priests?
Arnold; Jesus didn’t have a woman priest.
Arnold — because it was not Jesus’ plan to have women priests. Women have a feminine role given to them by God; this does not include leadership. That is a male role. Get your head in the game, Arnold.
Just as long as women know their place — is that it, Jim? Sounds like you’re stuck in the backward thinking of the pre-civil rights era. By the way, Jesus never created any priests; in fact, Jesus openly ridiculed the hypocritcal Pharaisees who he said paraded around the marketplace in their fancy robes seeking the admiration of the people.