The Vatican is facing allegations it used a "skeleton key for money laundering"…using tools that can edit international bank account numbers (IBANs) in transfers in the international SWIFT system

https://www.politico.eu/article/vatican-financial-obscure-transactions-claims-bank-transfers-money-laundering/

AUGUST 11, 2025 4:34 AM CET BY BEN MUNSTER

The Vatican is facing allegations it used a "skeleton key for money laundering" by illegally manipulating bank transfers.

The City-State's former top financial cop ― Libero Milone, who was forced out in 2017 ― has claimed that its payroll agency was able to alter the names and account numbers on transactions after they were made, masking the identity of recipients and senders.

The implication would be enormous because it would have made it possible for Vatican officials to wire funds to private clients without revealing who they were, possibly enabling unlimited money laundering and violating the most basic anti-fraud rules.

The Pillar, a Catholic website, followed up with a series of articles signaling that Milone was sitting on a pile of potentially explosive material on practices uncovered during his time at the Vatican and was considering whether to deploy it to bolster his case.

Describing the IBAN editing tool as a "skeleton key for money laundering," The Pillar said that if proven, "the Vatican would likely end up on an international financial black list of the darkest kind, frozen out of the international banking system, meaning no money could come in or out of the City-State except in literal, physical cash."

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/vatican-court-rejects-auditors-wrongful-176 (July 2025)

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“I have a piece of paper which says that they can change the transactions — they can change the name — at any time,” Milone said in response to a question by POLITICO. He also intimated that he had further damaging evidence of malpractice in the City-State but again refused to say what, insisting that he didn't want to draw attention to himself. “I'm not trying to blackmail anyone,” he told reporters.

Milone said he first learned of the tool when he was asked to look into it by Cardinal George Pell, an Australian cleric appointed under the same transparency drive. Pell was forced to return to his native country in 2017 to face child abuse allegations, for which he was later cleared. He died in 2023.

In a letter addressed to Milone and dated 2016, a copy of which The Pillar shared with POLITICO, Pell said he had been "alerted" to a request from APSA, the Vatican's payroll agency, "to amend the controls in the SWIFT system,” an action he described as “potentially … illegal."

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>>23453320 https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pell-ordered-investigation-into-potentially (July 2025)

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The international “whitelist” status of the Vatican — the recognition of robust anti-money counter-terrorism financing laws and mechanisms in its jurisdiction necessary to avoid enhanced scrutiny and international sanctions — is largely predicated on a 2021 report from MONEYVAL, the European Commission’s anti-money laundering watchdog, which conducted a lengthy on-site inspection of Vatican financial institutions in 2020.

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While APSA’s primary function is to manage the Holy See’s real estate portfolio and other assets and investments - including cash and stocks - generating a return to help fund the operations of the Roman curia, in the past it also operated as a kind of exclusive private bank, offering accounts, including anonymous numbered accounts, to individuals and non-Vatican institutions.

The use of those accounts was linked to allegations of money laundering and other financial crimes for years, and ending APSA individual accounts and commercial services was a key priority of financial reforms under Cardinal George Pell, who was appointed by Pope Francis as the first prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy in 2014, and Libero Milone, who was named the first auditor general of the Vatican in the same year.

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The potential consequences of alleged falsification of SWIFT records could see the Vatican returned to an international “black list” of jurisdictions, severely curtailing its ability to interact with the global financial system and markets and making it subject to international sanctions and enhanced monitoring.

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https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/vatican-financial-reform-risked-becoming-a-charade-internal-memos-warned (Nov. 2022)

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Internal Vatican documents obtained by The Pillar also show that Libero Milone, the former auditor general of the Vatican, was investigating a series of financial irregularities at APSA, the Holy See’s sovereign wealth manager and paymaster department, including “a dangerously, highly centralised investment process and opaque portfolio management operation that breed irregularities and represent significant exposure to fraud.”

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Milone has also said that he has extensive documentation showing financial misconduct and corruption at the highest levels of the curia which he will present in court to show he was dismissed because of “panic” caused by his work to reform Vatican finances, but has declined to make such documentation available to press.

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Milone has said that Becciu canceled the PwC audit when the firm sent letters to banks and investment houses, asking for lists of Vatican accounts, deposits, signatories and similar details.

“When they saw this list [of requests], I think they panicked, because they realized these guys would discover a lot of things they didn’t want to tell them — that’s why PwC was sacked,” Milone told reporters earlier this month. 2/2

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>Vatican can edit IBAN numbers in the SWIFT system

Here's an AI answer on what could be done with such an exploit–

"Manipulating international bank account numbers (IBANs) within the SWIFT system could potentially facilitate a range of illegal activities, including but not limited to:

• Money Laundering: Concealing the origins of illegally obtained funds by directing them through complex transactions, making them appear legitimate.

• Fraud and Theft: Redirecting or intercepting funds for personal or organizational gain, potentially leading to theft of assets.

• Tax Evasion: Moving funds across borders to evade taxes or obscure financial disclosures.

• Funding Illegal Activities: Facilitating the transfer of funds to support terrorism, drug trafficking, or other illicit enterprises.

• Sanctions Evasion: Bypassing international sanctions by disguising the true origin or destination of funds.

• Corruption and Bribery: Using manipulated account information to funnel bribes or kickbacks across different jurisdictions.

• Financial Sabotage or Disruption: Introducing false or manipulated data to disrupt financial systems, erode trust, or cause economic instability.

Has a giant mystery been uncovered?

Is this the missing link?

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Follow the money?

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The hub of cabal finance?

Moving money all over the place without anyone having a clue?

May God protect this whistleblower.

"the whole corrupt diseased temple…"

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WHEN DOES A CHURCH become political?

WHEN DOES A CHURCH become corrupt?

WHEN DOES A CHURCH become willfully blind?

WHEN DOES A CHURCH become controlled?

Q

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U.S.-HOLY SEE RELATIONS

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https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3819.htm Wealth? Power?

Sanctuary against criminal prosecution?

Recipe for …….

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Holy See = 'Eye of Providence'?

The Eye was used by the Catholic church for centuries before the Freemasons appropriated it - https://www.catholicbridge.com/catholic/all-seeing-eye-churches.php

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Many governments of the world feed the 'Eye'?