Italy

Italian prosecutors are investigating the anti-establishment party Five Star Movement, a mounting scandal concerning suspected electoral fraud using faked and cloned signatures for the regional election in 2014.

Italian Anti-mafia investigators have confiscated goods and properties for an overall value of over 25 million euro in Modena, Catanzaro and Rome. A case of collusion between a mafia-like gang and businessmen. They are accused of criminal association and extortion.

Rome prosecutors requested 18 convictions in a trial into the so-called P3 case, a secret cabal that sought to exert undue influence on the State. Charges range from criminal association to corruption and abuse of power.

Investigation in the waste management sector in Italy: a new case of bribery and conflict of interest related to a tender of 3,5 billion, the price of corruption was paid by citizens.

A corruption inquest into Italian construction works: key figures have been arrested under the national investigation into corruption and extortion within various Italian construction works of Terzo Valico, the railway line which was to connect Liguria to Tortona and other Northern lines, primarily in the direction of Milan. The ‘round-up’ spread across the entire nation, making arrests in Lazio, Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Umbria and Calabria

Tax evasion: Authorities have revealed a million-strong fraud with diesel fuel. The gang had sold diesel without taxing it.

On October 12, the Italian financial police said it had broke up a value-added tax fraud ring allegedly involved in transactions totaling EUR930m, through 180 companies in 15 European Union (EU) countries.

fifa's director of communications Walter De Gregorio is to resign after making a joke on television about the scandal-hit soccer body, while pressure mounted for his boss Sepp Blatter to step aside at once.The European Parliament said Blatter's failure to depart immediately would block efforts to rid fifa of rampant Corruption.

Water is arguably the world’s most precious, if not always most expensive, resource. The OECD is looking to prioritise cooperation between sectors and new forms of financing. EurActiv’s partner El País – Planeta Futuro reports.

According to the prosecution's theorem the former minister De Girolamo was the organizer and promoter of a "political party" directory that oriented clienteles, contracts and patronage of Benevento ASL (local health authority) according to the logic of power and electoral advantage. The trial will start on November.