List of political scandals in Italy
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Template:Short description Template:Politics series sidebar Template:More citations needed This is a list of major political scandals in Italy: {{#invoke:Hatnote|hatnote}}{{#ifeq:||}}
- 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",<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref> has sparked the race to discover criminal records of candidates.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>