Sentence examples for hands investigation from inspiring English sources

In the 1990s, several designers were swept up in the so-called Clean Hands investigation into corruption among Italian politicians and business executives.

Probably not: the intention seems to have been to purify Brazilian politics, taking as precedent the Italian ''clean hands" investigation of the 1990s.

By the early 1990s, a vast corruption drive led by prosecutors – the "Clean Hands" investigation – swept through parliament and hobbled most existing political parties.

Italian media reports compared the cases with the so-called Clean Hands investigation of the 1990s, which uncovered kickbacks at dozens of Italian companies and swept away an entire political class.

Italian media reports are comparing the cases with the so-called Clean Hands investigation of the 1990s, which uncovered kickbacks at dozens of Italian companies and swept away an entire political class.

But Mr. Scalfaro also witnessed the decline of the Christian Democrats, one of several parties to be overcome by the so-called clean hands investigation of the early 1990s, which looked into allegations of widespread corruption involving Italy's political and business classes.

Describes the downfall of the Ferruzzi family and the so-called Clean Hands investigations.

Shortly before he first became Italy's prime minister, in May 1994, his business empire, Fininvest, became a subject of the mani pulite (clean hands) investigations.

The magistrates who launched the mani pulite (clean hands) investigations into corruption in 1992 have used the current legislation to prosecute a string of businessmen, including Mr Berlusconi.

FOR A few, feverish days last month, some Argentines hoped that a scandal over the payment of bribes to senators would trigger an equivalent to Italy's "clean hands" investigations, and prompt a cathartic upheaval in their political life.

He is attuned to the perspective of the ordinary citizens he meets in bars and post-office lines, but he also gets behind the surface, providing neat background summaries of such phenomena as the "clean hands" investigations of the nineties, the Vatican finance scandals of the seventies, and why Italian TV is as bad as it is.