Ex-head of Vatican bank has archive on senior Italian and Church figures

The report said Mr Gotti Tedeschi had given copies of his archive to trusted
friends, telling them: “If I am killed, the reason for my death is in
here.”

“I’m afraid for my life,” he reportedly told prosecutors.

When he saw plainclothes officers approach his house on Tuesday, Mr Gotti
Tedeschi thought they were killers, La Stampa daily reported this week.

Corriere della Sera reported that the archive contained documents “on the
management of numerous current accounts through which money of dubious
provenance transited.”

Gotti Tedeschi was appointed in 2009 and sacked on May 24 by the board of the
bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works or IOR, after a
long-running dispute with the Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone.

A powerful and divisive figure in the Holy See, Bertone is one of the main
targets in a series of leaks of confidential documents from the Vatican in
recent months.

Those leaks have led to the arrest of Pope Benedict XVI’s butler.

Source: AFP

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