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Title: Australian police say no criminal misconduct in Vatican funds transfer
Reporting: Renju Jose
Editing: Himani Sarkar & Michael Perry
Publisher: Reuters
Date: 02FEB2021

SYDNEY (Reuters) -There was no evidence of criminal misconduct in the transfer of an estimated to A$9.5 million ($7.23 million) from the Vatican to Australia between 2014 and 2020, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Wednesday.Australia’s financial intelligence unit, AUSTRAC, last month reduced its estimate of money transfered from the Vatican to Australia from A$2.3 billion ($1.75 billion), citing a computer coding mistake..

“No criminal misconduct has been identified to date,” AFP said as it completed its analysis of the information provided by AUSTRAC about payments to Australia from the Vatican.

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