ITALY
ANSA
(ANSA) – Rome, June 10 – Information provided by the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), the Vatican bank, allowed investigators to “close the circle” in their probe of the 500 million euro fraudulent bankruptcy of the Divine Providence nursing homes chain, judicial sources said Wednesday.
Replies supplied by the Holy See bankers allowed investigators in Puglia to undertake “a more pregnant technical examination” of financial flows through bank account data in which assets of the Congregation of Divine Providence had been hidden, the sources said.
Meanwhile it was disclosed that a Socialist MP, Raffaele Di Gioia, also is among those under investigation in the probe in addition to an NCD Senator and two nuns.
Finance police confiscated 32 million euros and a building that the nuns were planning to turn into a private clinic in Guidonia in Rome province.
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