Mexico, Church in Dispute Over Probe

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Mexico, Church in Dispute Over Probe
JOHN RICE
Associated Press

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government is squabbling with the Roman Catholic church over a money-laundering probe involving Cardinal Juan Sandoval of Guadalajara, one of a handful of clerics who oversee Vatican finances.

The affair has drawn in a wealthy friend of Fidel Castro, has renewed allegations of murder and cover-up and raised questions about the role and rights of the church in a changing nation.

It pits the church against prosecutors in the government of President Vincente Fox who, despite being divorced and remarried, is the most openly and devoutly Catholic head of state Mexico has had in 140 years.

On Sept. 11, the newspaper Reforma said the federal attorney general's office had subpoenaed bank records of the cardinal and several of his relatives and friends in a probe of possible money laundering. It published a photocopy of the request for the records, listing names. Prosecutors confirmed only that an investigation of the cardinal was under way.

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Very Interesting article! Will be interesting to see where the Probe goes???

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