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Bank card payments suspended in Vatican

The Bank of Italy has suspended all bank card payments in the Vatican including for tickets to its famous museum until further notice because of a failure to fully implement anti money laundering legislation, Italian media reported on Thursday. The payments have been suspended since January 1 after the Bank…

Rome police bust massive marijuana plantation under Bank of Italy

Tipped off by the strong smell wafting into a suburban street, police in Rome have discovered a massive underground marijuana plantation in a disused railway tunnel built by Mussolini. Police seized 340kg of marijuana – with a street value of €3m (£2.36m) – from the plantation, which was lit by…