Italian Political scandal

This is a list of major political scandals in Italy (This is an incomplete list)
  • 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

SOURCES : www.independent.co.uk

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