Coming soon - Spanish Nuns On The Run?

Biggins

A group of Spanish nuns have attracted the attentions of police and tax inspectors, after they claimed that €1.5 million they’d been storing in bin liners was stolen from their convent.

The Guardian reports that the nuns at Zaragoza’s Santa Lucia convent claim the money, which they’d been keeping in €500 notes stored in a locked cupboard, was taken while they were at mass.

But if police were mildly suspicious about what the nuns were doing with so many €500 notes, the alarm bells really started ringing when the sisters revised their initial complaint and said that in fact only €450,000 had been taken.

The sixteen Cistercians, who specialise in book restoration, and whose lawyers claim the money came from “a lifetime of saving”, insist they were planning to distribute some of it to other convents in financial difficulty.

As I said on the news site: "Sounds like partly an inside job. Someone from inside had to have told about the money been there, its location and building layout given the limited time the thieves would have had to get in and take it."

Source: http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/tax-probe-launched-after-spanish-nuns-claim-thieves-took-bin-bags-stuffed-with-e1-5million-2011-03/?utm_source=shortlink

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Bishop Brennan: The amount of people's lives irreparably damaged!

Father Dougal: They were only nuns.

Bishop Brennan: Nuns are people too!