{"id":161282,"date":"2024-10-25T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/catholic-church-officials-in-greece-accused-of-using-nightclubs-and-cafes-to-launder-e3m-of-embezzled-cash\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T11:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T11:50:06","slug":"catholic-church-officials-in-greece-accused-of-using-nightclubs-and-cafes-to-launder-e3m-of-embezzled-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/catholic-church-officials-in-greece-accused-of-using-nightclubs-and-cafes-to-launder-e3m-of-embezzled-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Church officials in Greece accused of using nightclubs and cafes to launder \u20ac3m of embezzled cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/10\/1920x1080\/skynews-catholic-church-priest_6727252.jpg?20241025105206&amp;fit=1920,1080&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Catholic Church officials in Greece accused of using nightclubs and cafes to launder \u20ac3m of embezzled cash\" title=\"Catholic Church officials in Greece accused of using nightclubs and cafes to launder \u20ac3m of embezzled cash\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Catholic Church officials in Greece allegedly sent more than \u20ac3m (\u00a32.5m) of embezzled money to be laundered through cafes and nightclubs.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s anti-money-laundering authority has been investigating for months and found that two officials allegedly sent the funds from the church to five bank accounts, a source told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Athens News Agency said they are suspected of embezzlement and that the most recent suspicious transfer was a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts and assets belonging to five club and cafe owners from the southern Peloponnese area have now been frozen, according to a senior official and local media.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/walmart-worker-found-by-her-mother-burned-to-death-inside-walk-in-oven-at-store-13240852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Mother found daughter burned to death&#8217; in walk-in oven <\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/menendez-brothers-set-to-be-resentenced-for-murder-of-parents-after-case-featured-by-netflix-13240437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Menendez brothers set to be resentenced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Details have reportedly been sent to a prosecutor, who is expected to open their own investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Synod of the Catholic Church of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/greece-6029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greece<\/a> <\/strong>said it had not been officially notified about the case and would comment when authorities contact them.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/catholic-church-officials-in-greece-accused-of-using-nightclubs-and-cafes-to-launder-83643m-of-embezzled-cash-13240900\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Church officials in Greece allegedly sent more than \u20ac3m (\u00a32.5m) of embezzled money to be laundered through cafes and nightclubs. The country&#8217;s anti-money-laundering authority has been investigating for months and found that two officials allegedly sent the funds from the church to five bank accounts, a source told Reuters. The Athens News Agency said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/24\/10\/1920x1080\/skynews-catholic-church-priest_6727252.jpg?20241025105206","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1220,125597,979,20437,6149,125599,19361,125598,14783,120],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161284,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161282\/revisions\/161284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}