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, 2010s^[1]
Lockheed bribery scandals, which caused President Giovanni Leone to resign^[2]
Propaganda Due scandal, 1980s^[3]
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 started in the 1990s and uncovered in 2006
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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