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VATICAN BANK SUED FOR ALLEGED WAR CRIMES
by Sherman H. Skolnick
Note: case is Emil Alperin et al. vs. Vatican Bank et al., No. 99 C
4941, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, filed
11/15/99.

In apparently the first legal action of its kind, the Vatican Bank has
been sued by World War Two victims and their heirs and beneficiaries.
Brought as a class action in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco,
the initial plaintiffs are Ukranians and ex-Soviet citizens but the
affected class includes Serbians, Roma, anti-Fascist Croatians, and
Jews.
The suit seeks "an accounting, restitution, disgorgement and to recover
damages arising out of defendant VATICAN BANK (hereinafter referred to
as IOR[Instituto Per Le Opere Di Religione,Institute for Religious
Works]),

the FRANCISCAN ORDER, and other banking institutions' and religious
orders and organizations participation in a common scheme and course of
conduct:

"(1) to profit from, both directly and indirectly, the inhumane and
genocidal system instituted by the Nazi and Ustasha ideology;

"(2) to obtain, accept, conceal, convert and profit from assets looted
by the Ustasha Regime and deposited in, or liquidated through, the IOR,
Defendant Banks, and Franciscan organization during the ascendency of
the Ustasha regime and following the demise of the regime at the behest
of former Ustasha and Nazi leaders through the offices of the Franciscan
Order; and

"(3) to retain and convert assets deposited in their institutions by the
Ustasha and the Franciscan Order." The suit uses the definition: "The
'Ustasha Regime' is defined as the German puppet fascist government of
Croatia under the direction of its leader Ante Pavelic known as the
'Poglavnik' (Leader). The Ustasha regime operated under German
protectorate from 1941 through 1945 and included numerous members of the
Franciscan Order as both military and civil functionaries".
The Court papers state "Among the top Nazi beneficiaries of the
Croatian-Vatican treasure was Adolph Eichmann who received a new
identity as a 'Croatian refugee' before being smuggled to South
America."

The suit points out "Evidence of the extent of the defendant's
participation in wrongdoing has only recently come to light as a result
of the disclosure and declassification of archived documents in the
United States, Great Britain, Germany and other countries, as well as
from the reports of several commissions and/or task forces created by
the United States, Germany, and elsewhere and in particular
the 1997 Supplemental Report by the United States State Department: U.S.
and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen
or Hidden by Germany During World War II,'The
Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury' released under the auspices of
Under Secretary of State Stuart E. Eizenstat."

Among the fourteen pages of details in the Court pleadings, "Vatican
Bank...has its principal place of business and is incorporated in
Vatican City but conducts business and financial transactions worldwide
on behalf of the Roman

Catholic Church including the United States and California with total
assets in excess of 3 billion dollars. Defendant IOR engages in
for-profit merchant banking transactions in the United States,
California, and elsewhere through its investments and transactions with
other banks. Defendant Franciscan Order also known as First Order of
Franciscans

(O.F.M.) includes and/or included several Croatian Franciscan Orders in
California, the United States, Croatia, and Italy."
Other eye-opening details in the suit include: "Croatian troops assisted
the German occupiers of Ukraine in their systematic plundering and
looting of

Ukrainian resources and individual property. In exchange for the
Croatian assistance in Ukraine, the Ustasha were given a free hand in
Croatia and Bosnia to loot, plunder and terrorize the non-Croatian
populace. The Croatian
Treasury contained plunder from Ukraine and assets seized from the
Ustasha victims in Yugoslavia. Without the full support of Nazi Germany
for its loyal ally, the Ustasha, the Ustasha Treasury would not have
been permitted to retain the profits from Ustasha atrocities, instead
these funds would have been sent to Germany."
Further, "Upon the demise of the Ustasha government in 1945, assets
valued between 50 and 180 million dollars were transferred from the
capital, Zagreb. The majority of these funds, estimated at more than 80
million dollars were transferred to Vatican City with the assistance of
Roman Catholic clergy and in particular members of the Franciscan order
part of or sympathetic to the Ustasha."
Moreover, "Many officials of the Ustasha government, including the war
criminals like Pavelic, were secretly housed by the Franciscan Order in
Vatican City or Rome. The Ustasha Treasury with the assistance of IOR
and Franciscans was used to resettle the Ustasha fugitives in Spain,
Argentina, the United States and other sympathetic countries. The
Ustasha were also alleged to have reaped profits in conjunction with
their Franciscan and IOR benefactors by black market activities in post
war Italy, selling Vatican and Red Cross documents to Nazi war criminals
and by acting as informants and provocateurs for various intelligence
services."
As a class action, the suit raises common questions of fact and law,
including:
"Did the defendant IOR knowingly or otherwise carry out banking
transactions that involved capital or assets that included looted and
plundered assets of victims of the Nazi and Ustasha Regime deposited
with the IOR by the remnants of the Ustasha Regime or the Franciscan
order?
"Did the Defendants Banks, IOR, or Franciscan Order improperly retain or
convert deposited assets of the plaintiffs to/for their own or another's
use?
"Did the defendants knowingly aid and profit from the concealment of the
Ustasha wartime Treasury?
"Did the defendants knowingly assist fugitive war criminals from the
Nazi and Ustasha regimes by making available and providing international
transfer of funds?"
Among the pleadings "Facts Specific to IOR and Roman Catholic Religious
Orders": "Many high officials of the Ustasha government were Roman
Catholic clergy and in particular Franciscans. The Vatican maintained an
'Apostolic visitor' in Zegreb, the Croatian capital from 1941 until the
end of the War. Relations between the Vatican and the Ustasha were
cordial. The Papal legate in Croatia was Mgr. Marcone, who openly
blessed the Ustasha, publicly gave the Fascist salute, and transmitted
instructions from Rome to the Croatian clergy and episcopacy,
principally concerning the forced conversions of the Eastern Orthodox
Christians."
Among the many details of the complaint: that the former Ustasha
Treasury was used post-World War Two to finance Nazi fugitives in exile.
That the Vatican Bank to date "has refused to account for the Ustasha
related transactions despite numerous inquiriebs from other governments
and the London Conference on Nazi Gold."
Those close to the pending lawsuit advised us not to attract too much
attention to the lawsuit on TV in Chicago. Why? The apparent reason is
the large Pro-Vatican Croatian community in the Windy City as well as
what some contend is a large number of the Ustasha or their offspring
who live in Chicago. In the 1970s, there were many violent events
between the Croat and Serb communities in Chicago, including shootings
and bombings, not well reported outside of town.
A few years ago when we taped a one hour Cable TV Show on the subject of
Bosnia and Serbia, one of the program guests threatened to leave the
studio if I raised the issue of Vatican complicity in "ethnic cleansing"
of Serbs from Croatia, by which many thousands of Serbs were killed or
injured. [Another guest did raise the issue.] During the Kosovo War,
Spring of 1999, the monopoly press said almost nothing about the
bloodshed in Croatia reportedly instigated at least in part, by the
Vatican. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Vatican Bank suit was
brought in San Francisco. Headquartered there is the Bank of America,
owned jointly by the Vatican, the Jesuits, and the Rothschilds. The
parent holding company, Bank America, has been reportedly largely bought
out by the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza. Most every bank in California is
reportedly owned by the Yakuza. Seldom mentioned by the news fakers: the
Yakuza is the main force in West Coast dope trafficking.
A possible problem in the case getting a fair hearing and trial: Most of
the judges in the federal judiciary in California are banker-judges.
Will they arbitrarily protect the Vatican Bank and other banking
institutions implicated in the case? The federal appeals court in San
Francisco is riddled with banker-judges. It is an unpublicized
situation,by the way, throughout the U.S. and throughout the history of
the federal courts in the United States.
For some background, visit our website: http://www.skolnicksreport.com
In particular our stories, "The Vatican, the Giannini Family, and the
CIA" and "The Pope's Three Banks in the U.S."
Click HERE to read an updated version of the lawsuit.

Since 1958, Mr.Skolnick has been a court reformer. Since 1963,
founder/chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, disclosing
certain instances of judicial and other bribery and political murders.
Since 1991 a regular panelist, and since 1995, moderator/producer, of
one-hour,weekly public access Cable TV Show, "Broadsides", Cablecast on
Channel 21, 9 p.m. each Monday in Chicago. For a heavy packet of printed
stories, send $5.00 [U.S. funds] and a stamped, self-addressed business
sized envelope [4-1/4 x 9-1/2 #10 size] WITH THREE STAMPS ON IT, to
Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, Sherman H. Skolnick,
Chairman, 9800 South Oglesby Ave., Chicago IL 60617-4870. Office, 7
days, 8 a.m. to midnight, (773) 375-5741 [PLEASE, no "just routine
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