https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An Italian minister caught up in the country's biggest corruption scandal in two decades resigned on Friday, admitting he had to take political responsibility for the rigging of public works tenders that cost taxpayers billions. https://www.thelocal.it/20150320/rolex-scandal-minister-rejects-blame-for-italy-kickbacks Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:57:25 +0100 rolex-scandal-minister-rejects-blame-for-italy-kickbacks A kickbacks scandal threatening to destabilize the Italian government deepened on Wednesday as a minister was accused of using his influence to get his son a job then lying about it. https://www.thelocal.it/20150318/wiretaps-deepen-government-crisis-over-kickbacks Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:10:33 +0100 wiretaps-deepen-government-crisis-over-kickbacks A top Italian minister on Tuesday rejected calls to resign after it emerged his son had been given a Rolex watch by a businessman arrested in a kickbacks scandal that has rocked the government. https://www.thelocal.it/20150317/rolex-revelations-rock-italy-government Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:21:13 +0100 rolex-revelations-rock-italy-government The Expo world trade fair is just one of the major public works hit by Italy’s latest corruption scandal, involving €25 billion worth of contracts, which has seen the arrest of a former top official with alleged ties to a government minister. https://www.thelocal.it/20150317/expo-part-of-25bn-italian-corruption-probe Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:12:27 +0100 expo-part-of-25bn-italian-corruption-probe An official from Italy's Ministry of Culture has been arrested on corruption charges, related to work carried out after the devastating 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, the town's public prosecutor announced on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140617/ministry-official-arrested-over-laquila-bribes Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:05:00 +0200 ministry-official-arrested-over-laquila-bribes The financial police on Monday announced the arrest of two former executives of Finmeccanica, Italy’s aerospace and defence giant, as part of an international bribery operation. https://www.thelocal.it/20140324/bribery-scandal-hits-ex-finmeccanica-bosses Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:43:00 +0100 bribery-scandal-hits-ex-finmeccanica-bosses The Indian defence ministry on Tuesday said it will appeal against an Italian court order rejecting its request to recover some €278 million in bank guarantees over a scrapped helicopter deal. https://www.thelocal.it/20140318/india-faces-italy-court-battle-over-helicopter-deal Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:35:00 +0100 india-faces-italy-court-battle-over-helicopter-deal Italy's embattled Silvio Berlusconi, ousted from parliament and stripped of legal protection this week, risks arrest and a fresh trial after a court on Friday accused him of corrupting witnesses in a sex case. https://www.thelocal.it/20131129/berlusconi-risks-fresh-trial-for-bribing-witnesses Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:08:00 +0100 berlusconi-risks-fresh-trial-for-bribing-witnesses A councillor from Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL) party in the central Abruzzo region has been arrested for allegedly taking bribes for cultural funds and squandering state funds on hotels and champagne. https://www.thelocal.it/20131113/councillor-squandered-state-cash-on-hotels Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:59:00 +0100 councillor-squandered-state-cash-on-hotels