🚨 BREAKING: The Vatican is facing accusations of using a “skeleton key for money laundering” by illegally altering bank transfers, changing names and account numbers after transactions, and concealing the identities of both senders and recipients.
The city state’s former top financial cop ― who was forced out in 2017 ― has claimed that its payroll agency was able to alter the names and account numbers on transactions after they were made, masking the identity of recipients and senders, Politico reported.
The implication would be enormous because it would have made it possible for Vatican officials to wire funds to private clients without revealing who they were, possibly enabling unlimited money laundering and violating the most basic anti-fraud rules.