List of political scandals in Italy
# List of political scandals in Italy

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 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", has sparked the race to discover criminal records of candidates.

