The Vatican received 544 reports of suspicious financial activity in 2015, nearly four times more than the year before, its financial watchdog said on Thursday, putting the increase down to better compliance, not more crime.
After a string of scandals, some stretching back decades, Pope Francis made cleaning up Vatican finances a priority, and the man in charge of overseeing that said it was new awareness of reporting obligations that had produced the spike in cases.
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