The Holy See’s new financial watchdog just announced six incidents of possible monetary malfeasance from last year. The Vatican has been trying to shed its image as a murky financial center since at least 1982.

Rene Bruelhart, the head of the Vatican’s new Financial Intelligence Authority, disclosed Wednesday that he had found six incidents of possible money laundering in the Vatican Bank from last year — marking the first step in what may be a new era of transparency for the scandal-stained institution…article

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Is the Vatican Bank finally fighting money laundering for real?