U.S. authorities say a superyacht owned by a Russian oligarch previously sanctioned for alleged money laundering has been seized by law enforcement in Fiji. Then they cleared out the Vatican of cash, gold and valuables in 650 plane loads and flew it to Fort Knox and other US Treasury locations” Ward continued. ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has formally stripped the Vatican secretariat of state of its financial assets and real estate holdings following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros in donations and investments that are now the subject of a corruption investigation. President Joe Biden on Thursday asked Congress for a $33 billion supplemental funding bill aimed at supporting Ukraine over the next several months as Russia's brutal and unrelenting war enters Finance police on Wednesday executed a warrant by Reggio Calabria DDA anti-mafia prosecutors to seize assets worth 124 million euros from people linked to … Thursday, 21 January 2021 01:00 PM. The investments date back to 1929, when the Vatican City State was founded as an independent territory in a deal with Italy that included compensation for lands seized from the former Papal States. Ukrainian Parliament Approves Sanctions Against Russian … Pope Francis Strips Powerful Vatican Office of Its … Vatican reveals it owns more than 5,000 properties The Vatican’s criminal tribunal has convicted the former head of the Vatican bank and his lawyer of embezzling millions of euros in proceeds from … Italian authorities seized euro23 million ($30 million) from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the … Why So Many Can’t Believe. The Vatican Supreme Court has confirmed the confiscation of the …