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 == 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", has sparked the race to discover criminal records of candidates.

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