Italian political scandals

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This is a list of major political scandals in Italy:

• former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's corruption charges
  • Tax evasion
  • bribing members of the judicary
  • "Immunity legislation"
  • Media manipulation for political propaganda
• P2 scandal, 1980s
• Tangentopoli (diffuse corruption cases in national politics), early 1990s
• revelation of Gladio, a NATO anti-communist stay-behind network
• Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies (DSSA), discovery of a secret structure organized by far-right leader Gaetano Saya
• Yellowcake forgery used by George W. Bush as pretext for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Rescue of Giuliana Sgrena in 2005, during which SISMI officer Nicola Calipari was shot dead by US military forces in Iraq
• Imam Rapito, kidnapping of a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003
• SISMI-Telecom affair, domestic surveillance program