Word: duilio
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MILAN: Milanese magistrates have given Italian taxpayers cause to cheer: by pressuring detainees in the country's widespread corruption scandal to yield their ill-gotten gains, they have recovered $63 million so far, most of it from Swiss bank accounts. This amount is clearly just the beginning. Duilio Poggiolini, a former Health Ministry official, for example, is accused of having taken $125 million in gold and silver ingots, gold rubles from the Czarist era, Krugerrands, diamonds and ancient Roman coins. Poggiolini is in jail in Naples; under questioning, his wife referred to the stash as "the savings of a lifetime...
...Duilio Baltodano, Nicaragua's Attorney General, faces the daunting task of trying to return to the original owners millions of dollars' worth of property confiscated by the Sandinistas. Baltodano has logged more than 6,000 restitution claims, but one particular petition has caught his attention: a large house occupied since 1979 by former Sandinista President Daniel Ortega. The motion to evict Ortega will probably be decided in June, and Baltodano seems confident of success. There's just one catch. If the former President refuses to move, the task of evicting him ultimately falls to the army. And Ortega's brother...