Bill Dorich
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William "Bill" Dorich is an American
United States
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 journalist
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 and writer whose name is upon the class action suit against the Vatican Bank and others
Class action suit against the Vatican Bank and others
Alperin v. Vatican Bank is a class action suit by Holocaust survivors against the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order filed in San Francisco, California on November 15, 1999...

, a US federal lawsuit
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A lawsuit or "suit in law" is a civil action brought in a court of law in which a plaintiff, a party who claims to have incurred loss as a result of a defendant's actions, demands a legal or equitable remedy. The defendant is required to respond to the plaintiff's complaint...

 in California
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 against the Vatican
Holy See
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 and Franciscan Order. The lawsuit involves the laundering of Axis loot from former Yugoslavia by the defendants.

Dorich claims that the Roman Catholic Church was involved "up to its eyeballs". That priest
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s were directly involved in mass murders committed in the Jasenovac concentration camp
Jasenovac concentration camp
Jasenovac concentration camp was the largest extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia and occupied Yugoslavia during World War II...

. According to Dorich, the victims in Jasenovac number between 600-700,000 people.

Bill Dorich claims, following documentation in the book Unholy Trinity by Aarons and Loftus that the murderers, including Roman Catholic priests and Franciscan monks, were supplied with false passports from inside the Vatican ratline. That fleeing after the war they were re-settled predominantly in South America
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 (especially Peronist Argentina), Spain
Spain
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, and Canada
Canada
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.

Bill Dorich has invited relatives and descendants of the victims of the war crimes to contact the lawyers handling this suit.

See also

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