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 Giovanni Leone (; 3 November 1908 – 9 November 2001) was an Italian politician, jurist, and university professor. A founding member of the Christian Democracy (DC), Leone served as the President of Italy from December 1971 until June 1978. H ...

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 The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...

SISMI-Telecom scandal The SISMI-Telecom scandal, uncovered in Italy in 2006, refers to a surveillance scandal believed to have begun in 1996, under which more than 5,000 persons' phones were tapped. First arrests As part of the judiciary investigation on the '' I ...

, domestic surveillance program * Bancopoli, bank takeover-merger scandal of 2005, involving

insider trading Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company. In various countries, some kinds of trading based on insider information ...

, audiotapes and political influences *

Abu Omar case The Abu Omar Case was the abduction and transfer to Egypt of the Imam of Milan Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. The case was picked by the international media as one of the better-documented cases of extraordinary rendition car ...

* 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.

New findings

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