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VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
ANNO XXI - N° 30
DATA 09-02-2012
Summary:
- COMMUNIQUE ON CLAIMS IN AN ITALIAN TELEVISION PROGRAMME ABOUT THE IOR AND
THE AIF
___________________________________________________________
COMMUNIQUE ON CLAIMS IN AN ITALIAN TELEVISION PROGRAMME ABOUT THE IOR AND THE
AIF
Vatican City, (VIS) - Given below is the text of a communique issued early
this afternoon by the Holy See Press Office.
"The television programme, 'Gli intoccabili', transmitted yesterday evening by
Italy's 'La7' television network, included unfounded claims and false
information about the Institute for the Works of Religion and(IOR) and the
Vatican Financial Information
Authority.
"On this subject, and with reference to the declaration issued by the Holy See
Press Office yesterday 8 February, the following points must be made:
"(1) The affirmation that the IOR is a bank is incorrect. The IOR is a
foundation in both civil and canon law, regulated by its own statutes. It does
not hold reserves or grant loans as a bank does. Even less so is it an
'offshore bank', and the
aforementioned television programme used that term not to illustrate the true
nature and function of the IOR but to create an impression of illegality. The
IOR lies within a sovereign jurisdiction and operates on the basis of a
framework of norms and
rules which include the Vatican's anti-money laundering legislation: Law No.
127, adopted precisely in order to conform to international standards.
"(2) The insinuation that Vatican norms do not allow for investigations or
criminal procedures regarding the period prior to the coming into force of Law
No. 127 on 1 April 2011, is untrue.
"The discussion during the aforesaid programme referred to words contained in
a 'private memo'. That document has no official value and merely reflects the
opinions of the individual who wrote it. Moreover, it does not state that
investigations or
criminal procedures regarding the period prior to 1 April 2011 are impossible,
or suggest that the IOR is unwilling to collaborate in investigations or
criminal procedures on events prior to 1 April 2011. As regards cooperation
between the IOR and the
AIF, the IOR has cooperated in providing information on transactions that took
place before that date.
"Therefore, the claims made during the programme are untrue. According to
Vatican anti-money laundering norms, the Vatican judicial authorities have the
power to investigate suspect transactions that took place during the period
prior to 1 April 2011,
also in the framework of international cooperation with judges in other
States, including Italy.
"(3) Relations between the IOR and non-Italian banks have always been active
and, contrary to the claims made, activity with Italian banks has been reduced
only to a limited extent. The IOR, like Italian financial institutions, uses
the services of
foreign banks (Italian and non-Italian) when they are more efficient or cost
less. Moreover, all movements in cash are certified with customs documents. As
standard practice, all movements of money are regularly traced and archived.
"(4) As regards the norm regulating the movement of money in cash, it must be
made clear that the IOR monitors, and has monitored, step transactions for a
total of euro 15,000 in ten consecutive days. Furthermore, article 28
paragraph 1(b) of the new
text of Law No. 127, modified by Decree of the President of the Governorate on
26 January 2012, states that the parties subject to that Law (including the
IOR) must honour 'their obligation of adequate monitoring ... when they carry
out occasional
transactions the value of which is equal to or more than euro 15,000,
irrespective of whether they are carried out in a single transaction or with a
number of interconnected transactions'.
"(5) The affirmation made by the magistrate, Luca Tescaroli, according to
which the Vatican failed to respond to rogatory letters concerning the case of
the Banco Ambrosiano and Roberto Calvi, is untrue. On this subject, it must be
made clear that there
is no record of the rogatory letter of 2002 having reached the Vatican. Nor,
following a preliminary search in the archives, is there any record of the
international rogatory letter presented by the Tribunal of Rome in 2002 ever
having reached the
Italian embassy to the Holy See. The other two rogatory letters received a
regular reply, addressed to the Italian embassy to the Holy See. As
yesterday's declaration said, the Holy See and the Vatican authorities have
duly cooperated with magistrates
and other Italian authorities, and this is evident from documentation in the
possession of officials both of the Holy See and of the Republic of Italy.
"The facts described above show that the presentation given in the
aforementioned programme was biased and does not contribute to forming an
objective picture of events".
___________________________________________________________
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VISnews120209
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE ANNO XXI - N° 30DATA 09-02-2012
Summary: - COMMUNIQUE ON CLAIMS IN AN
ITALIAN TELEVISION PROGRAMME ABOUT
THE IOR AND THE AIF
COMMUNIQUE ON CLAIMS IN AN ITALIAN TELEVISION PROGRAMME ABOUT THE IOR AND
THE AIF
Vatican City, (VIS) - Given below is the text of a communique issued early
this afternoon by the Holy See Press Office.
"The television programme, 'Gli intoccabili', transmitted yesterday evening
by Italy's 'La7' television network, included unfounded claims and false
information about the Institute for the Works of Religion and(IOR) and the
Vatican Financial
Information Authority.
"On this subject, and with reference to the declaration issued by the Holy
See Press Office yesterday 8 February, the following points must be made:
"(1) The affirmation that the IOR is a bank is incorrect. The IOR is a
foundation in both civil and canon law, regulated by its own statutes. It does
not hold reserves or grant loans as a bank does. Even less so is it an
'offshore bank', and the
aforementioned television programme used that term not to illustrate the true
nature and function of the IOR but to create an impression of illegality. The
IOR lies within a sovereign jurisdiction and operates on the basis of a
framework of norms and
rules which include the Vatican's anti-money laundering legislation: Law No.
127, adopted precisely in order to conform to international standards.
"(2) The insinuation that Vatican norms do not allow for investigations or
criminal procedures regarding the period prior to the coming into force of Law
No. 127 on 1 April 2011, is untrue.
"The discussion during the aforesaid programme referred to words contained
in a 'private memo'. That document has no official value and merely reflects
the opinions of the individual who wrote it. Moreover, it does not state that
investigations or
criminal procedures regarding the period prior to 1 April 2011 are impossible,
or suggest that the IOR is unwilling to collaborate in investigations or
criminal procedures on events prior to 1 April 2011. As regards cooperation
between the IOR and the
AIF, the IOR has cooperated in providing information on transactions that took
place before that date.
"Therefore, the claims made during the programme are untrue. According to
Vatican anti-money laundering norms, the Vatican judicial authorities have the
power to investigate suspect transactions that took place during the period
prior to 1 April
2011, also in the framework of international cooperation with judges in other
States, including Italy.
"(3) Relations between the IOR and non-Italian banks have always been
active and, contrary to the claims made, activity with Italian banks has been
reduced only to a limited extent. The IOR, like Italian financial
institutions, uses the services of
foreign banks (Italian and non-Italian) when they are more efficient or cost
less. Moreover, all movements in cash are certified with customs documents. As
standard practice, all movements of money are regularly traced and
archived.
"(4) As regards the norm regulating the movement of money in cash, it must
be made clear that the IOR monitors, and has monitored, step transactions for
a total of euro 15,000 in ten consecutive days. Furthermore, article 28
paragraph 1(b) of the new
text of Law No. 127, modified by Decree of the President of the Governorate on
26 January 2012, states that the parties subject to that Law (including the
IOR) must honour 'their obligation of adequate monitoring ... when they carry
out occasional
transactions the value of which is equal to or more than euro 15,000,
irrespective of whether they are carried out in a single transaction or with a
number of interconnected transactions'.
"(5) The affirmation made by the magistrate, Luca Tescaroli, according to
which the Vatican failed to respond to rogatory letters concerning the case of
the Banco Ambrosiano and Roberto Calvi, is untrue. On this subject, it must be
made clear that
there is no record of the rogatory letter of 2002 having reached the Vatican.
Nor, following a preliminary search in the archives, is there any record of
the international rogatory letter presented by the Tribunal of Rome in 2002
ever having reached the
Italian embassy to the Holy See. The other two rogatory letters received a
regular reply, addressed to the Italian embassy to the Holy See. As
yesterday's declaration said, the Holy See and the Vatican authorities have
duly cooperated with magistrates
and other Italian authorities, and this is evident from documentation in the
possession of officials both of the Holy See and of the Republic of Italy.
"The facts described above show that the presentation given in the
aforementioned programme was biased and does not contribute to forming an
objective picture of events".
Per ulteriori informazioni e per la ricerca di documenti consultare il
sito: www.wisnews.org e www.vatican.va Il servizio del
VIS viene inviato soltanto agli indirizzi di posta elettronica che ne
hanno
fatto richiesta. Se per qualunque motivo non si desidera continuare a
riceverlo, si prega di visitare nostra pagina dinizio: http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vi
/italinde.php
Copyright (VIS): Le notizie contenute nei servizi del Vatican
Information Service possono essere riprodotte parzialmente o totalmente
citando la fonte: V.I.S. - Vatican Information Service.
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