A top Vatican court on
Wednesday placed Finnat Bank Euramerica SpA President Gianpietro
Nattino under investigation following a report by the Vatican
Financial Information Authority (AIF).
The court has requested the collaboration of Italy and
Switzerland in the investigation into bank transactions and
trades, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said.
Nattino was named in an Reuters news agency report on
alleged money laundering, insider trading and market
manipulation involving the Vatican's finance and real estate
manager, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic
See (APSA).
The 33-page AIF report said APSA may have been used by
people outside the Vatican, with the possible complicity of APSA
staff.
AIF investigators found a portfolio of over two million
euros allegedly connected to Nattino, the contents of which were
moved to Switzerland just before new laws against money
laundering were introduced in the Vatican.
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