One audit commissioned by COSEA revealed hundreds of people misappropriating the Vatican’s tax-free status to resell cheap gasoline and cigarettes at great profit. An audit of the Vatican museums and pharmacy showed serious discrepancies—amounting to $100Ks—between what appeared on the books and what was actually in storehouses, suggesting either systematic theft or fraud

nothing has changed from the time of the borgias in 1502

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