VATICAN CITY
Huffington Post
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The Vatican has hired Liechtenstein’s former top anti-money laundering expert to help the Holy See comply fully with international standards on financial transparency.
Rene Bruelhart, 40, a Swiss lawyer, has been appointed as a consultant on “all matters related to anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism,” a statement said on Tuesday.
The Vatican said Bruelhart was hired as part of its “clear commitment” to respond to recommendations of a report by Moneyval, a department of the Council of Europe, which was made public on July 18.
Bruelhart, from Fribourg, was for eight years the director of Liechtenstein’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the department which gathers and analyses information used by police to combat money laundering, organised crime and the financing of terrorism.
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