The Vatican's Financial Information Authority (AIF) received six reports of "suspicious activity" in 2012. Of these six reports, two were forwarded to the Vatican prosecutors, who are investigating the nature of these transactions.
The AIF is an authority created in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI as part of the Holy See's commitment to comply with international standards in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
According to the AIF's annual report, published today by the Vatican press office, suspicious activity was reported in five cases by "supervised entities" (including the IOR) and in one case by "other authorities." The statistics included in the report also reveal that in 2012, there were seven "requests for additional information from reporting entities" and three in 2011.
