List of political scandals in Italy
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This is a list of major political scandals in Italy:
- Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi underage prostitution charges
- Lockheed bribery scandals, which caused President Giovanni Leone to resign
- Masonic lodge Propaganda Due scandal, 1980s
- Tangentopoli, diffuse corruption cases in national politics in the early 1990s
- Revelation of Gladio, a NATO anti-communist stay-behind network
- Niger uranium forgeries used by George W. Bush as pretext for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
- SISMI-Telecom scandal, domestic surveillance program
- Bancopoli, bank takeover-merger scandal of 2005, involving insider trading, audiotapes and political influences
- Abu Omar case
- 2014 Rome corruption scandal
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New findings
In last years, a successful initiative of moral revolt against political malpractice, entrusted to the Internet as a blog on "the list of parties with no convicted criminals on their electoral lists",[1] has sparked the race to discover criminal records of candidates.[2]
References
- ↑ http://www.beppegrillo.it/partiti_puliti.php
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. – via Questia (subscription required)
