Posted on 05/31/2023 7:42:41 PM PDT by marshmallow
ACI Prensa Staff, May 30, 2023 / 14:00 pm The Nicaraguan National Police, controlled by the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, published a statement May 27 accusing the Catholic Church of various crimes such as money laundering, a baseless charge according to human rights defenders.
The statement says that the police conducted “investigations that led to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of dollars hidden in bags located in facilities belonging to the dioceses in the country,” such as Matagalpa and Estelí.
The text also indicates that the investigations “confirmed the illegal withdrawal of funds from bank accounts that had been ordered by law to be frozen, as well as other illegal acts that are still being investigated as part of a money laundering network that has been discovered in dioceses of different departments [administrative districts].”
The day before, according to what was reported by various media outlets, the regime had ordered the accounts of the country’s dioceses and parishes to be frozen.
The government communiqué states that the attorney general’s office, the Superintendency of Banks, and the financial analysis unit — organizations controlled by the regime — “have confirmed the criminal movement of funds that, for the dioceses, have entered the country irregularly and which are being investigated and proceedings have been opened for all these crimes.”
The text also indicates that the Superintendency of Banks has requested that the bishops’ conference and the archbishop of Managua, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, present the documents that show the bank account transactions of the dioceses “so that at all times the laws of the country are complied with, avoiding the illegal acts that have been committed.”
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This commie clown needs a strategically placed bullet.
When will the worldwide commies realize that we are on to their always project strategery? [not to say that Pope Marx doesn’t, but consider the source of Catholic Church current orthodoxy.]
Interesting. Is the money being sheltered in Nicaragua? I would not automatically assume the commies are wrong here...if money is being illegally hidden in Nicaragua to hide it from legal claims in the US and Europe then maybe they’re doing the right thing.
How are US Catholic organizations reacting, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, etc
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