Posted on 02/05/2021 7:10:42 PM PST by marshmallow
Rome Newsroom, Feb 3, 2021 / 05:00 am MT (CNA).- The Australian Federal Police said on Wednesday that it had found no evidence of criminal misconduct in its investigation into money transfers from the Vatican to Australia.
Australian authorities have been investigating the suspicious payments, equivalent to about $7.4 million, for several months.
The federal police (AFP) said in a statement on Feb. 3 that “no criminal misconduct has been identified to date.”
“If the AFP receives additional information from Australian or international partners it will be reviewed accordingly,” it said.
Local media reported last month that investigators had been unable to account for around $1.9 million in transfers from the Vatican to Australia, but that $5.4 million had been identified as being used for legitimate expenses, such as travel, wages, and pension payments.
A week before that, on Jan. 13, Australia’s financial crime watchdog said that it had vastly overestimated the Vatican transfers, attributing the miscalculation to a “computer coding error.”
According to The Australian newspaper, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) informed Australia’s Senate that it had discovered the mistake after it launched a “detailed review” of its initial finding that around $1.8 billion had been transferred from the Vatican to Australia in about 47,000 separate transfers since 2014.
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Of cour$e not.
All of these large sums of money are going to orphanages, feeding the poor and giving shelter to the homeless, right?
Ya know, COVID.
Climate Change.
What a load. If you were investigating an alleged transfer of 700,000 euros and the computer “turned up” $1.8 billion why would you not check it out a bit more thoroughly and verify the methodology? Failing to check it is negligence. Passing it off as fact only to later “discover” you were off by only 250x and then pretending it was just an innocent little “computer coding error” would be fireable misconduct in any other job. Thankfully, for government employees, there are no consequences for that sort of thing so they can just do whatever they want without a care in the world.
What IS the pope doing, buying Alice Springs or something?
It suggests to me that the local church members aren’t putting enough money into the collection plates...the traffic of funds is usually in the opposite direction.
So who is pouring funds into the vatican? The poor people of South American and the Philippines?
1.8 billion isn’t exactly pocket change. What in the world are they up to now?
Travel, salaries, and pensions.
Paying off the selected “people “ in the Australuan church hierarchy who the Vatican approved of.
Travel, salaries, and pensions.
Somebodies traveling first class, draws a high salary and a very generous pension.
According to The Australian newspaper, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) informed Australia’s Senate that it had discovered the mistake after it launched a “detailed review” of its initial finding that around $1.8 billion had been transferred from the Vatican to Australia in about 47,000 separate transfers since 2014.
Working with the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority (ASIF), AUSTRAC found that there were only 362 transfers from the Vatican to Australia between 2014 and 2020, amounting to $7.4 million.
The agency also concluded that over the past six years there were 237 transfers totaling $20.6 million in the other direction: from Australia to the Vatican.
That’s more like it, thanks.
This was one of the few times I didn’t read the article, just responded to the ping.
The Australian police also brought false charges against Cardinal Pell to court and Pell spent 13 months is solitary confinement until being found innocent.
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