Friday, June 28, 2013

Another Black Eye for Man Made Religion

Vatican bank investigation snares bishop 
... The arrest of Nunzio Scarano, identified in the Italian press as a bishop from Salerno, near Naples, comes just two days after Pope Francis ordered a wide-ranging probe into the internal activities of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See — best known as the Vatican's bank — after a series of scandals. 
HOLY SEE: Pope names commission of inquiry into Vatican bank 
Scarano, who was arrested along with former intelligence officer Giovanni Maria Zito and financial broker Giovanni Carinzo, has reportedly been under investigation for weeks, after his name was connected to a series of suspicious transactions at the Vatican bank. 
According to investigators, Scarano paid Zito €400,000 ($520,000) to illegally transport €20 million ($26 million) in cash from Switzerland to Italy. That incident was said to involve the use of an Italian government plane. ...