Class action suit against the Vatican Bank and others

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The class action suit against the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order was filed by attorneys Tom Easton and Dr. Jonathan H. Levy in San Francisco, California on November 15, 1999.

The plaintiffs are concentration camp survivors of Serb, Jewish, and Ukrainian background and their relatives ,as well as organizations representing over 300,000 Holocaust victims and their heirs.

The plaintiffs seek an accounting and restitution of the Ustashe Treasury that, according to the US State Department, was illicitly transferred to the Vatican, the Franciscan Order and other banks after the end of the war, in order to further the goals of the ustasha Regime in exile and fund the infamous Vatican ratline.

Defendants currently include the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order. These defendants combined to conceal assets looted by the Croatian Nazis from concentration camp victims, Serbs, Jews, Roma and others between 1941-1945.

http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/5AC.pdf