UNITED STATES
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
The US State Department for the first time listed the Vatican as potentially vulnerable to money laundering, along with 67 other countries.
The department’s annual International Narcotics Control Strategy report listed the Vaticanas a “jurisdiction of concern” along with countries like Albania, the Czech Republic, Egypt, South Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and Yemen.
It said the Holy See appears for the “first time” in the annual report.
Vatican City set up anti-money laundering programs for the first time in 2011 and it will take a year to start determining how effective they are, a State Department official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
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