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From http://www.centrexnews.com/news_archive/2001.11/23.levy.html }}}>Begin For Immediate Release November 23, 2001 Law Offices Of Jonathan Levy and Thomas Dewey Easton Tel. 513-528-0586 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vatican Bank Top 10 Money Laundering Destination According to one global source, the Vatican is the main destination for over $55 billion in illegal Italian money laundering and the number 8 destination worldwide for laundered money, ranked well ahead of such offshore havens as the Bahamas, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. In a recent report by the London Telegraph and the Inside Fraud Bulletin, the Vatican was named as a top "cut out" country along with the offshore banking centers of Nauru, Macao, and Mauritius. A "cut out" country is one whose banking secrecy makes it is all but impossible to trace laundered funds back to their source. The Vatican Bank is desperately resisting a legal action for an accounting of stolen World War II assets in a San Francisco Federal court (Alperin v. Vatican Bank) filed by Serb and Jewish Holocaust survivors. Contrary to the above reports, a declaration filed under penalty of perjury by the Vatican Bank�s attorney, Franzo Grande Stevens, states in part that the Vatican Bank�s "fundamental purpose is to promote pious acts" and that its depositors "are essentially limited to Vatican state employees, members of the Holy See, religious orders, and persons who deposit money destined, at least in part, for works of piety." Stevens also declared to the court that the Pope controls the Vatican Bank and that bank records are not retained after ten years. It seems that the Vatican Bank, a major illegal money laundering operation, is hiding behind the benign image of John Paul II. Given the Vatican Bank�s alleged involvement with Nazi loot and current links to organized crime, a reckoning cannot be far off. The accumulating evidence points to a more piratical than pietical Vatican Bank For more information see: www.vaticanbankclaims.com Law Offices of Jonathan Levy and Thomas Dewey Easton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 513-528-0586 Home | Forum-Chat | Links | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fax: 603.917.5954 Copyright � CentrExNews.com 1999-2001. All rights reserved. End<{{{ From http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/dt.htm }}}>Begin THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) November 19, 2001, Monday SECTION: Pg. 31 LENGTH: 272 words HEADLINE: Gangster's paradise across the Atlantic BYLINE: By Michael Becket BODY: THE United States accounts for 46.3pc of the world's underworld cash, according to John Walker, a researcher in fraud. That compares with 5.3pc for Italy, 5.2pc for Russia, and 4.6pc for China. The UK is down at number nine, generating 2.4pc of the world's illegal cash. The money is also invested or laundered mainly in the US where 18.9pc goes. After that comes the Cayman Islands with 4.9pc, Russia 4.2pc, Italy 3.7pc and China 3.3pc. The UK is not in the top 10. But the most attractive sites for holding offshore cash, according to Inside Fraud Bulletin, are Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Britain and the United States. Top-scoring "cut-out" countries, which make it hard to trace the ill- gotten gains back to the getter, are Mauritius, Vatican City, Macao and Nauru, followed by Luxembourg and South Africa. After that come Britain's islands: Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Sark. The world total of laundered crime money is guesstimated by Mr Walker to be pounds 1,000 billion. The bulletin, quoting the table, notes, however, that "statistics on money laundering are unreliable". Little wonder, when there are laws in the Cayman Islands making it a criminal offence to impinge upon corporate or banking secrecy. It is worse still in Russia where the criminals do not just get themselves a bank account, they own more than 50 banks - that makes hiding the money a lot easier. Criminal gangs and terrorist groups "are expert in laundering funds", the magazine comments. There are even British websites that can provide a bogus name complete with fake passport and ID card. 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