Vatican bank’s ousted president accuses board of causing ‘grave damage’ to the Holy See

VATICAN CITY
Daily Reporter

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: March 28, 2014

VATICAN CITY — The ousted president of the Vatican bank has come out swinging, accusing the bank’s board of causing “grave damage” to the Holy See by firing him.

Ettore Gotti Tedeschi ended a nearly two-year silence with a statement Friday by his lawyers. It came after a Rome judge threw out a money-laundering case against him by ruling that he had nothing to do with daily operations of the Institute for Religious Works and was in fact working to bring the financial institution into line with international anti-money laundering standards.

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