Lawsuit: Vatican laundered Nazi Gold

[Destiny's Soldier]

The plaintiffs seek an accounting and recovery of the Ustasha Treasury that according to the US State Department was illicitly transferred to the Vatican, the Franciscan Order and other banks after the end of the war.

Defendants currently include the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order. These defendants combined to conceal assets looted by the Croatian Nazis from concentration camp victims, Serbs, Jews, Roma and former Soviet citizens from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia 1941-1945.

Levy v. CIA is a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act seeking release of US Intelligence agency files regarding the notorius Vatican spymaster, Fr. Krunoslav Draganovic. New records on Draganovic were released as a result of the successful conclusion of that lawsuit in 2001.

About the Attorneys

Dr. Jonathan Levy is licensed in California and the District of Columbia and has represented organizations and individuals in a variety of Holocaust and Second World War related lawsuits including banking, insurance, and slave labor matters. Jon is also a member of the International Criminal Bar in The Hague and has a PhD in Political Science.

Vatican Bank Claims

http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/six.pdf

1. This is a civil action arising under international law and the laws of the United States
of America on behalf of named plaintiffs and a worldwide class of all SERBS, JEWS, ROMA
(GYPSIES or SINTI-ROMANI), and CERTAIN FORMER SOVIET UNION CITIZENS and their legal heirs, successors in interest, assignees, legatees and beneficiaries hereafter referred to as Holocaust Survivors, who suffered monetary and/or property losses during the systematic and brutal persecution of the class of Holocaust Survivors by the regime known as THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA (hereinafter referred to as the Ustasha Regime) and whose property, collectively known as the USTASHA TREASURY, was deliberately concealed, laundered, hypothecated, commingled and converted by defendant OFM and its agents for the benefit of defendant and members of the former Ustasha Regime.

2. This action is made necessary by the refusal of the defendant to provide an accounting of converted assets and disgorge property in its possession and restore the profits of unjust enrichment. Defendant has had constructive notice of this matter since June 1998 when the USState Department published the report “The Whereabouts of the Ustasha Treasury” which implicated by name, OFM’s former Treasurer, Fr. Dominik Mandic OFM, as a party in the conversion and laundering of the Ustasha Treasury and actual notice since its agent, OFM Provincial Minister Melvin Jurisich, accepted service on behalf of OFM in Oakland, California.


3. Defendant OFM has long been involved in the politics of Croatia, Herzegovina and
Bosnia. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 OFM had five administrative
Provinces in Croatia and Bosnia (OFM Provinces). An OFM Province is an ecclesiastical
administrative unit containing friaries headed by a Minister Provincial. In 1939 due to the
outbreak of the Second World War, the OFM and its Minister General invested certain
extraordinary powers to a Croatian member of their Central Administration from Herzegovina, Father Dominik Mandic, who was contemporaneously served as Treasurer (General Economus) of OFM and General Definitor (Rome Representative) of all the Franciscan provinces in Slavic countries including Croatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia 1939-1946 and OFM Treasurer and General Definitor 1946-1951.

[corelli]

Well, even if they succeed in getting the records released from the US Government, you cannot sue a Sovereign State, which the Vatican (or more properly the Holy See) is. It's called Sovereign Immunity. It's a pointless PR exercise, IMO.

[Destiny's Soldier]

Well, even if they succeed in getting the records released from the US Government, you cannot sue a Sovereign State, which the Vatican (or more properly the Holy See) is. It's called Sovereign Immunity. It's a pointless PR exercise, IMO.

You could very well be right. The plaintiffs are trying to get around that. The US recently sued Iran for the supposed 1983 "Hezbollah" attack on US troops in Beruit that killed over 200.

Well is it pointless? Is the Ryan Report pointless in that it lets the clergy off the hook legally?

Is is possible the vatican would "take 10 truckloads of Serbian Gold" and launder it in the vatican bank?

[corelli]

You could very well be right. The plaintiffs are trying to get around that. The US recently sued Iran for the supposed 1983 "Hezbollah" attack on US troops in Beruit that killed over 200.

Well is it pointless? Is the Ryan Report pointless in that it lets the clergy off the hook legally?

Is is possible the vatican would "take 10 truckloads of Serbian Gold" and launder it in the vatican bank?

Anything is possible with the Vatican Bank. A complete crook, idiot at it's mildest, ran it in the 70/80's. Archbishop Paul Marchinkus's most famous quote when asked whether you could reconcile Christ's admonition to poverty with the Vatican holding billions of Dollars worth of stock in international companies, was "Well, you can't run the Church on Hail Mary's"!!