VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Sud

Vatican City, August 13 – A new papal decree aimed at combating money laundering and corruption “is a positive sign,” the Vatican’s head of financial intelligence said Tuesday, but cautioned that “some steps still needed to be taken”. “I don’t think it would be opportune to have misplaced expectations,” added René Bruelhart, head of the Holy See’s Financial Information Authority (AIF), in an interview with Vatican Radio. Last week Pope Francis issued a law, known as a “motu proprio”, that gives the AIF the new task of supervision over all areas of the Roman Curia, the Church’s administration, as well as its other institutions.