Vatican prelate arrested for plot to smuggle $27 Million into Italy (Video)

Photo ~ Monsignor Nunzio Scarano

(Reuters) - A former Vatican prelate on trial for an alleged plot to smuggle 20 million euros ($27 Million USD) into Italy was further charged on Tuesday with laundering millions through the Vatican bank, police said. Monsignor Nunzio Scarano and two other people served with arrest warrants were suspected of money laundering and making false statements, police said.

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In Salerno, Scarano lived in a luxury, 17-room apartment decorated with original artwork worth some 6 million euros ($8.1 million), investigators told Reuters after his arrest last June.

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