The Vatican risks being seen once more as an international financial pariah
of resignations and exclusions, the Vatican faces the very real risk of being reduced once more to the status of an international financial pariah. In the coming days its officials are due to answer a detailed questionnaire for Moneyval, Europe’s anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorist-financing watchdog. The picture they will have to paint could scarcely be less reassuring.
The Financial Information Authority —the Vatican’s regulatory body and the cornerstone of a nine-year campaign to dispel the Holy See’s image as a refuge for hot money and shady dealings—is no longer eligible to receive intelligence on suspected financial crime from its counterparts in other states. The’s president, René Brülhart, has left . Half his board has since resigned. And the authority’s director is suspended from duty.
The authority has not had an inventory of the data the police impounded, and has thus been unable to provide the Egmont Group with an assurance that its information is safe. The group has evidently decided it could not run the risk of supplying further information to the“The direct consequence is on the’s role as financial-intelligence unit, which is now dysfunctional,” says Mr Brülhart.
First to go, mere hours after Mr Brülhart, was Marc Odendall, a retired Swiss-German banker, who declared there was no point in staying in an “empty shell”. According to two Vatican sources another of the four board members, Juan Zarate, an American counter-terrorism expert, has since resigned.may simply have got caught in the crossfire of an attack on the Secretariat of State by its internal enemies.
In any event, the shambles casts serious doubt on the judgment of Pope Francis, who made it a priority of his papacy to clean up the Vatican’s tenebrous financial sector. Speaking to the, Mr Odendall said that the raids could not have happened without the pontiff’s approval. “This has been completely managed by the Holy Father from
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