June 28, 2013 BBC News
A Vatican cleric and two other
people were arrested Friday by Italian police for allegedly trying to
smuggle 20 million euros ($26 million) in cash into the country from
Switzerland by private jet. It's the latest scandal to hit the Holy See
and broadens an Italian probe into its secretive bank.
Monsignor
Nunzio Scarano, already under investigation in a purported
money-laundering plot involving the Vatican bank, is accused of
corruption and slander and was being held at a Rome prison, prosecutor
Nello Rossi told reporters.
Scarano's arrest came just two days after Pope Francis
created a commission of inquiry into the Vatican bank to get to the
bottom of the problems that have plagued it for decades and contributed
to the impression that it's an unregulated, offshore tax haven.
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