Head of Vatican financial regulator leaves job weeks after police raids

[Voltaire2]

The Vatican said on Monday the head of its financial regulator would leave, weeks after unprecedented police raids on his organization and another key arm of the Catholic Church’s bureaucracy.

Rene Bruelhart, a 47-year-old Swiss lawyer, told Reuters he had resigned from the top job at the Financial Information Authority (AIF), but did not go into further detail.

Vatican police entered the offices of the AIF and of the Secretariat of State - the administrative heart of the Catholic Church - on Oct. 1, as part of an investigation into an investment the Secretariat hade made in London real estate.

The officers, operating under a search warrant secured by the Vatican’s own prosecutor, seized documents and computers.

Surprisingly enough, this scandal at the vatican is not about child abuse.

[Karadeniz]

1. More Vatican Bank?

[Voltaire2]

2. Son of Vatican Bank.