Immediate Release
Vatican Bank Lawsuit Plaintiffs
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Dr. Jonathan Levy
Co-counsel for Plaintiffs
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New Allegations by Holocaust Survivors against Franciscan Order - OFM
Details Slowly Emerge about Nazi Gold in Vatican
Defendant OFM – Order of Friars Minor
April 16, 2009
San Francisco
United States District Court for Northern California
Alperin v. Vatican Bank and Franciscan order
Case No. C-99-4491 MMC
A federal court judge has overruled
objections of the defendant Franciscan Order of Friars Minor (OFM) and has
permitted the filing of an Amended Complaint in the decade long lawsuit Alperin v. Vatican Bank & Franciscan
Order. The plaintiffs, Holocaust
survivors and their heirs from former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, are
seeking an accounting and return of gold and other valuables deposited at the
Vatican Bank in 1946 by members of the Nazi puppet government of Croatia known
as the Ustasha who were sponsored and assisted by the Franciscan Order - OFM.
New details link the Nazi loot to
the ongoing “Zagorec diamond affair” trial in Croatia involving millions of
dollars of diamonds that were furnished by the Croatian Catholic Church to
purchase arms for the fledging state of Croatia during the break up of
Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Additionally, the involvement of
the Franciscan Order in the United States and Rome with post war money
laundering is chronicled along with a description of the Ustasha treasure
convoy and the initial deposit of the funds at the Vatican in 1946.
For a copy of the Court order and Sixth Amended complaint go to:
http://vaticanbankclaims.com/news.html
For more information:
Vatican Bank Claims
www.vaticanbankclaims.com
resistk@yahoo.com
Dr. Jonathan Levy
Attorney for Holocaust Survivors
+1 843-837-8413