Nunzio Scarano

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Nunzio Scarano (* 1952 in Salerno , Italy ) is an Italian Catholic prelate and was the auditor of the property administration of the Apostolic See .

Life

Scarano grew up in southern Italy . After graduating from school and studying, he first worked as a banker, where he was employed at the Banca d'America e d'Italia, which was then taken over by Deutsche Bank . In 1987 he was ordained a priest as a so-called late caller . With the rank of prelate, he later worked as auditor for the Vatican property administration. Nunzio Scarano was given leave of absence at the end of June 2013 after his superiors were informed of the prosecution's investigation into him.

Money laundering affair

Facade of the prison "Regina Coeli" (it., Queen of Heaven) in the "Via della Lungara" in the Roman district of Trastevere , to which Nunzio Scarano was admitted on June 28, 2013 after his arrest.

Don Nunzio Scarano received his nickname Monsignor 500 because, according to " Repubblica ", he always had 500 euro banknotes available. The clergyman is said to have offered business friends who were friends to exchange the banknotes for crossed checks. His lawyer Silverio Sica denied any criminal activity on the Italian television channel " Sky ". There is already a case against Scarano in Salerno for money laundering in one of his accounts at the Vatican Bank; He is said to have smuggled 560,000 euros from his account to Italy in 2009 to use it to pay a mortgage on his house in Salerno.

Scarano is said not only to have anonymous accounts at the Vatican Bank IOR , Unicredit and MPS , but also to have transferred millions of euros to the Swiss UBS accounts in Lugano . This is no longer accessible to the Italian authorities. In this context, and because he could not have financed his lavish lifestyle with the modest salary of a prelate, the public prosecutor's office became aware of Monsignor Scarano. The Corriere della Sera reported 20 million euros in cash that the prelate wanted to have flown in from Switzerland with the help of an Italian secret service agent.

The former agent Giovanni Maria Zito of the Italian secret service AISA was then supposed to bring the money to Rome in a government plane. The investigating prosecutor Rossi stated against it that it was a private plane. The plan failed because the financial service provider Giovanni Carenzio, charged with managing the funds in Switzerland, reportedly refused to hand over the money after an initial promise. The agent and the financial services company were also arrested. According to the investigators' findings, these cash assets are said to be untaxed funds from the so-called "Salerno brothers" Paolo, Cesare and Maurizio D'Amico, who operate an oil tanker fleet from Rome.

The General Director of the Vatican Bank IOR, Paolo Cipriani, and his deputy Massimo Tulli announced their resignation on July 1, 2013. The German Ernst von Freyberg is to take over her official duties for the time being . Freyberg was in February 2013 - at that time Benedict XVI was still in office . - was appointed as chairman of the IOR ("Presidente del Consiglio di Sovrintendenza") to reform the IOR.

Meanwhile, the Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, announced that Nunzio Scarano's assets had been frozen in IOR accounts; In addition, the investigations could be extended to other people who are suspicious in this connection. The independent financial advisory firm Promontory Financial Group was commissioned to conduct a comprehensive investigation of all customer contacts of the Vatican Bank for money laundering. At the beginning of August 2013, the Holy See prosecutor submitted a request for legal assistance to the Republic of Italy for the first time in history over this money laundering affair .

At the end of October 2013, Scarano was released from custody to his home in Salerno and placed there under arrest. In January 2014, the charges were expanded to include further allegations of money laundering and donation fraud, and a new arrest warrant was issued.

In January 2016, Scarano was acquitted of corruption charges by a criminal court in Rome, but received a two-year suspended sentence on charges of false accusation. He had accused Zito of stealing a check for 200,000 euros, which the court believed he had actually handed over to the ex-agent himself. The Salerno money laundering case was pending at the time of the conviction. In February 2019, the Roman judgment, against which Scarano had appealed, was tightened even further by the appellate body. The judges not only confirmed the conviction of the lower instance, but also found Scarano guilty of the allegation of corruption that had been dropped in the first instance and sentenced him to three years in prison. The judgment is not yet final and can be appealed again.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Tobias Bayer: Vatican: The pact of Nunzio Scarano with the devil. News economy. DIE WELT, June 28, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  2. ^ Giulia Segreti: Suspended banker-turned-priest spent career managing money - FT.com. Financial Times, June 28, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  3. ^ Deutsche Bank - History. Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, October 19, 2011, archived from the original on April 13, 2012 ; Retrieved on July 4, 2013 (English): "In 1986 Deutsche Bank AG acquired 100% of Banca d'America e d'Italia, a bank established in Naples in 1917 following the name change of Banca dell'Italia Meridionale."
  4. ↑ Rachel Donadio, Elisabetta Povoledo: Cleric Arrested in $ 26 Million Plot, Leaving New Blot on Vatican Bank. ROME - A Vatican official. A private plane. And 20 million euros in cash. The New York Times, June 30, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2013 (English): "Although he did work for a bank that that was bought by Deutsche Bank in 1986, his employment there predated the sale, so he was never" an employee of Deutsche Bank "."
  5. ↑ a b c Francesco Pecoraro: The dubious financial affairs of Monsignore Scarano. VATICAN. In: zeit.de. Zeit Online, June 28, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  6. ↑ CHI È NUNZIO SCARANO, PRELATO ARRESTATO. PRIMA DEI VOTI ERA FUNZIONARIO DI BANCA. Leggo, June 28, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 (Italian).
  7. ^ Nicole Winfield: Vatican official, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, arrested in corruption plot. Europe - World. The Independent, June 28, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Imprisoned Vatican prelate rejects allegations. Die Presse, July 1, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  9. ^ Ior, arrestati un alto prelato e un ex funzionario 007. Sky TG24, June 28, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2013 (Italian).
  10. ↑ a b Pastor apparently wanted to smuggle millions of euros by plane. News abroad: Europe. Tages-Anzeiger, June 28, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Thesy Kness-Bastaroli: Nunzio Scarano: A monsignor as a clever financial acrobat. Church. derStandard.at GmbH, June 30, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2013 .
  12. ^ Tilmann Kleinjung: Arrests in Rome: What role does the Vatican Bank play? The Don with the 500 euro bills. In: tagesschau. ARD-aktuell, June 28, 2013, archived from the original on July 1, 2013 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 .
  13. ↑ AFP: Vatican Bank: Three people arrested on suspicion of corruption. Europe. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 28, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2013 .
  14. ↑ dpa / AP / rtr: Scarano arrested: Vatican clergyman wanted to smuggle 20 million euros. Banks - companies. Wirtschaftswoche, June 28, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2013 .
  15. ^ Hans-Jürgen Schlamp: Vatican Bank Affair: Nunzio Scarano arrested. Arrest of Vatican Priests: God's Scandal Bank. SPIEGEL ONLINE, June 28, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  16. ↑ rup / jba / AFP / Reuters: Corruption in Rome: Fraud at the Vatican Bank - Prelate of Salerno in custody. Banks. FOCUS Online, June 28, 2013, accessed July 4, 2013 .
  17. ^ Ernst von Freyberg nominato nuovo presidente del Consiglio di Sovrintendenza dello Ior. Radio Vaticana, February 15, 2013, archived from the original on September 28, 2013 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 (Italian).
  18. ↑ AFP / Reuters / sks: Chief and Vice-Director of the Vatican Bank resign. Economy. Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH / Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, July 1, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2013 .
  19. ↑ Scarano case: money frozen, investigations could be expanded. Vatican Radio, July 12, 2013, accessed July 14, 2013 .
  20. ↑ Vatican asks Italy for legal aid against prelates. In: Vatican Documents. Vatican Radio, August 2, 2013, accessed August 2, 2013 .
  21. ↑ Monsignor under house arrest. Vatican Radio, October 25, 2013, accessed November 9, 2013 .
  22. ^ Monsignor Nunzio Scarano charged with money laundering. BBC News , January 21, 2014, accessed January 21, 2014 .
  23. ↑ New arrest warrant against Vatican prelate Scarano. APA report on derstandard.at , January 21, 2014, accessed on January 21, 2014 .
  24. ↑ Mixed verdicts for ex-Vatican official in corruption trial , Cruxnow.com of January 19, 2016.
  25. ^ Judgment against ex-Vatican auditors tightened. In: Katholisch.de , February 14, 2019, accessed on the same day.
personal data
SURNAME Scarano, Nunzio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian prelate and auditor
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Salerno , Italy