Mario Chiesa (; born in Milan, December 12, 1944)See , which describes him as aged forty-seven in February 1986. is an

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former politician and member of the

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. In 1992 Chiesa was arrested on charges of corruption, leading to the

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trials, and eventually to a restructuring of Italian politics. In 2009 he was arrested again, under charges related to waste treatment in

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