Details Slowly Emerge about Nazi Gold in Vatican

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Vatican Bank Lawsuit Plaintiffs
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New Allegations by Holocaust Survivors against Franciscan Order - OFM

Details Slowly Emerge about Nazi Gold in Vatican

April 16, 2009

San Francisco

United States District Court for Northern California
Alperin v. Vatican Bank and Franciscan order
Case No. C-99-4491 MMC

A federal court judge has overruled objections of the defendant Franciscan Order of Friars Minor (OFM) and has permitted the filing of an Amended Complaint in the decade long lawsuit Alperin v. Vatican Bank & Franciscan Order. The plaintiffs, Holocaust survivors and their heirs from former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, are seeking an accounting and return of gold and other valuables deposited at the Vatican Bank in 1946 by members of the Nazi puppet government of Croatia known as the Ustasha who were sponsored and assisted by the Franciscan Order - OFM.

New details link the Nazi loot to the ongoing “Zagorec diamond affair” trial in Croatia involving millions of dollars of diamonds that were furnished by the Croatian Catholic Church to purchase arms for the fledging state of Croatia during the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Additionally, the involvement of the Franciscan Order in the United States and Rome with post war money laundering is chronicled along with a description of the Ustasha treasure convoy and the initial deposit of the funds at the Vatican in 1946.

For a copy of the Court order and Sixth Amended complaint go to:

http://vaticanbankclaims.com/news.html



For more information:

Vatican Bank Claims
www.vaticanbankclaims.com
resistk@yahoo.com
Dr. Jonathan Levy
Attorney for Holocaust Survivors
+1 843-837-8413