VATICAN CITY
Channel News Asia
Pope Francis dismissed the Italian five-man board of the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority and named new members including a woman for the first time and a former security adviser to US President George W Bush.
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Thursday dismissed the Italian five-man board of the Vatican’s Financial Information Authority and named new members including a woman for the first time and a former security adviser to US President George W Bush.
Juan Zarate from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, who was Bush’s deputy national security adviser for counter-terrorism, will now have to enforce transparency rules for scandal-hit Vatican finances.
The three others chosen are Italian manager Maria Farina, Swiss financial consultant Marc Odendall and Joseph Pillay, who helped build up Singapore’s economy as a top civil servant and businessman, the Vatican said in a statement.
The five Italian members of the body, who were appointed by the Pope’s predecessor Benedict XVI, were dismissed in what a source told Vatican affairs news agency I.MEDIA was part of a bid by Francis to get rid of the “old guard”.
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