AUSTRALIA
Catholic Leader
February 5, 2021
By Mark Bowling
THE Australian Federal Police has found no criminal misconduct after completing an investigation into huge payments made from the Vatican to Australia.
There were claims that money transfers of almost $3million sent to Australia could have been connected to an international money laundering and fraud scandal.
The Australian international financial watchdog, AUSTRAC, referred the transfers during the last six years to the Australian Federal Police as “actionable financial intelligence”.
However the AFP has released a statement confirming that it had “completed analysis of the financial intelligence provided by AUSTRAC” and found “no criminal misconduct… to date.”
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