List of political scandals in Italy

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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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 [ edit ]

^ "Il Blog di Beppe Grillo" . www.beppegrillo.it . Archived from the original on 2006-03-29.
^ Buonomo, Giampiero (2006). "Come si puo diventare parlamentari senza poter essere eletti consiglieri comunali" . Diritto&Giustizia Edizione Online . Archived from the original on 2012-08-01 . Retrieved 2016-04-09 .

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