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
- SISMI-Telecom affair, domestic surveillance program
- Bancopoli (Bank takeover-merger scandal of 2005, involving insider trading, audiotapes and political influences)