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Police rule out criminal misconduct after investigation into Vatican payments to Australia
The Australian Federal Police says it has finished its investigation into payments made from the Vatican to Australia and has not found any criminal misconduct.
Key points:
- The Australian Federal Police were investigating payments from the Vatican to Australia
- It found no evidence of criminal misconduct in these payments
- Police initially reported more than $2b had been transferred, but that figure was later revised down to less than $10 million
AUSTRAC, which investigates criminal abuse in financial systems in Australia, had earlier reported $2.3 billion had been transferred to Australia from the Vatican between 2014 and 2020.
It also said there had been 47,000 individual transfers of money.
Those figures were contested at the time by the…
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