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The head of the Vatican bank Ettore Gotti Tedeschi looks on in Rome in this April 22, 2010 file photo. Gotti Tedeschi has been placed under investigation by Rome magistrates for suspected money-laundering by the bank, judicial sources said on September 21, 2010.
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By Massimiliano Di Giorgio and Philip Pullella
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Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:37am EDT
ROME (Reuters) - The Vatican bank's top two officials are under investigation for suspected money laundering and police have frozen 23 million euros ($30.21 million) of its funds, Italian judicial sources said on Tuesday.
They said President Ettore Gotti Tedeschi and director-general Paolo Cipriani were being investigated by Rome magistrates Nello Rossi and Stefano Fava in a case involving alleged violations of European Union money-laundering rules.
The Vatican confirmed the Rome magistrates' action in a statement that expressed "perplexity and amazement" at the move and "utmost faith" in the two men who head the bank, officially known as Institute for Religious Works (IOR).
Gotti Tedeschi, 65, has been at the helm of the bank for a year and is a close adviser to Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti.
The sources said Italy's financial police had preventively frozen 23 million euros of the IOR's funds in an account in an Italian bank in Rome.
Two recent transfers from an IOR account in the Italian bank were deemed suspicious by financial police and blocked.
One was a transfer of 20 million euros to a German branch of a U.S. bank and another of 3 million euros to an Italian bank.
A statement from the Vatican's Secretariat of State said the bank had committed no wrongdoing because it was transferring its own money between its own accounts.
Gotti Tedeschi, a devout Catholic who has taught financial ethics at the Catholic University of Milan, also heads an Italian unit of the Spanish Banco Santander, according to its website.
He also serves on the board of several major Italian banks.
ATM MACHINES IN LATIN
The IOR primarily manages funds for the Vatican and religious institutions around the world, such as charity organizations and religious orders of priests and nuns.
Its cash point machines in the Vatican are perhaps the only ones in the world that allow clients to choose Latin as the language to perform operations.
The IOR was involved in the fraudulent bankruptcy of Banco Ambrosiano, then Italy's largest private bank, that turned into an international scandal in 1982. The IOR held a small stake in Ambrosiano, whose president Roberto Calvi was found hanged under London's Blackfriars Bridge the same year.
Several investigations failed to determine whether Calvi, known as God's Banker, had been killed or committed suicide.
At the time the IOR was headed by American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, who died in Arizona in 2006.
The Vatican denied any responsibility for the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano but made what it called a "goodwill payment" of $250 million to Ambrosiano creditors.
(Writing by Philip Pullella, reporting by Massimiliano Di Giorgio, Philip Pullella and Giusepe Fonte; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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