ITALY
Reuters
By Laura Viggiano
NAPLES, Italy, June 7 (Reuters) – Italian police searching the home and office of Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the former head of the Vatican’s bank, have found a confidential dossier relating to his three-year tenure as the bank’s president, a judicial source said on Thursday.
The dossier appeared to have been put together by Gotti Tedeschi to defend himself from allegations over his mismanagement of the bank.
Gotti Tedeschi was ousted from his position as head of the Vatican’s Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) on May 24 after the bank’s board passed a motion of no-confidence, accusing him of neglecting his basic management responsibilities.
The unusually abrupt dismissal, which followed the arrest of the pope’s butler for allegedly stealing confidential papal documents, was the culmination of a leaks scandal that has shaken the Vatican since January.
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