By Hannah Roberts In Rome One of the Vatican’s most senior money-men has been arrested in an alleged plot to smuggle 20 million Euros into Italy from Switzerland aboard a government plane. Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, the bishop of Salerno, and the chief accountant for the Vatican’s vast property portfolio, has been taken into custody along with an Italian secret agent Mario Zito and broker Giovanni Carenzio. Scarano, 61, who worked at Deutsche bank before taking ecclesiastical vows, is accused of fraud, corruption, and other charges, as part of a wider investigation into the IOR Vatican Bank. Arrest: Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, the bishop of Salerno, the chief accountant for the Vatican's vast property portfolio, has been taken into custody
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Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, the bishop of Salerno, taken into custody
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He is the chief accountant for the Vatican’s vast property portfolio
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He was known among Vatican circles as 'Don 500 Euros'
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Italian secret agent Mario Zito and broker Giovanni Carenzio also arrested
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