Vatican Bank, to investigate a suspected new account
Mystery about the owner: a layman
The name is protected by an encrypted code. The investigation started after the claims of former President Gotti Tedeschi
by Sara Menafra, Il Messaggero http://www.ilmessaggero.it/primopiano/vaticano/ior_indagini_su_un_nuovo_conto_sospetto_mistero_sullintestatario_un_laico/notizie/205362.shtml
(GFP: sorry for the translation but it's done by google)
ROME - There is a new account suspected in the crosshairs of prosecutors investigating the IOR. With millions in suspicious movements and, for the first time, with the holder, covered by the cipher, which is certainly not a religious but a secular, a businessman or a politician of Italy. To talk to Roman magistrates who have long worked on five other accounts, payable to all prelates, was the same former president of the IOR, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi. He added that he had received reports from outside the bank: "The Director General Paolo Cipriani did not confirmed the name and said not to ask more questions," said the attorneys.
But before the magistrates' request to know the holder of the account, Gotti Tedeschi also chose not to respond, confirming the concerns and fears that after the resignation had taken him to write a memoir directed to Benedict XVI himself. And 'here that is sharing the investigation of the prosecutors in Rome on recycling operations triangulated through the Vatican bank. The account, according to Gotti Tedeschi, has seen passing movements millionaires, and according to initial assessments of the square Clodius could be the first documented case of recycling that goes through the walls of the Vatican but also involves political and Italian businesses.
The problem is that the main obstacle to resolve the mystery is just the former president of the IOR Ettore Gotti Tedeschi who had also promised the full cooperation of all Roman magistrates Ior the investigation, starting from forty-seven binders of documentation, even coming from Vatican bank, delivered during the first raid of his office in Milan at Banco Santander. On behalf layman, however, the banker has chosen not to speak, by suggesting to have some misgivings: "I insospettii on a person I had said was owner of a numbered account our well outside the bank - basically said Gotti Tedeschi during the interrogation of two weeks ago in the offices of Piazza Adriana - I asked explanations on the changes that occurred on that account to the Director General Paolo Cipriani and he confirmed to me the name of the true owner of the account, but said not to ask further questions of what had happened and how. "
Faced with questions of the prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone, dell'aggiunto In Rossi and Stefano Rocco Fava pm, however, Gotti Tedeschi exercising the right to remain silent, that possibility has always been available being investigated in proceedings relating to (his name was written almost two years ago for violating the money laundering legislation).
Two days ago the prosecutors have been given of investigations with the police commander of the core currency of the Guardia di Finanza, Leandro Cuzzocrea, for mandating new tests that enable to identify with certainty the holder. And in the meantime have the cards sent to Strasbourg because Roman investigation before deciding whether to institute religious works can indeed be inserted between the banks "clean" the European Commission Moneyval, the commissioners should examine suspicious transactions already identified.
The final decision on promotion or on rejection of the IOR, could come by next July 4.
