ITALY
New York Daily News
BY CORKY SIEMASZKO / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013
Thou shalt not smuggle a fortune into Italy.
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a top Vatican bean counter, was busted Friday for trying to do just that along with an Italian military police honcho and a shady financier.
Scarano was the middleman in a scheme to avoid paying customs and taxes by sneaking $26 million from a Swiss bank to Rome by private jet, an Italian prosecutor said.
But Scarano, who was already under investigation for using money meant for a hospice to buy himself a Sicilian hideaway, was undone when the wiretaps on his phone caught him plotting, prosecutor Nello Rossi said.
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