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Italian warrants for IOR officials, 1987

Milan warrants of February 1987, invalidated by the Court of Cassation on 17 July 1987.

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In February 1987 magistrates issued warrants for Paul Marcinkus and two lay managers of the Institute for the Works of Religion. A Vatican tribunal refused extradition, calling the charges “conjectural”. On 17 July 1987 the Italian Court of Cassation invalidated the warrants.

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Italian Court of Cassation 17 Jul 1987 invalidated the arrest warrants Scholarship & press 1

Paul Marcinkus named in the warrants Scholarship & press 1
Institute for the Works of Religion the bank whose officials were named Scholarship & press 1

Milan Scholarship & press 2
Issued by the Milan prosecutors, according to the Italian press report.

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Feb 1987 – 17 Jul 1987 Italian warrants for IOR officials, 1987
17 Jul 1987 Italian Court of Cassation intervened in Italian warrants for IOR officials, 1987

Proof 2 sources

Italian Court Invalidates Warrants For Three Vatican Bankers, The Georgia Bulletin (Catholic News Service), 23 Jul 1987. Scholarship & press Archived copy
The ruling July 17 by the Court of Cassation, Italy’s equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, specified that its decision was definitive, with no chance for further appeal.
Named in the warrants were Archbishop Marcinkus, Vatican bank president, and two bank administrators, Pellegrino de Strobel and Luigi Mennini.
A Vatican tribunal earlier this month rejected a request by Italian authorities to extradite the bank officials.
It also called the charges in the warrants "conjectural."
The warrants alleged that the Vatican bank, known formally as the Institute for Religious Works, knew or should have known that it was a party to fraudulent deals that caused the Banco Ambrosiano debts.
Famiglia Cristiana pubblica la lettera in cui il cardinale Martini chiede la rimozione di Marcinkus (press report on the Casaroli papers), Press report hosted by the Archdiocese of Milan. Scholarship & press
Ma Marcinkus, colpito da mandato di cattura per bancarotta fraudolenta dalla Procura di Milano

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