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.