Word: lavoro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lending scheme that apparently took place on a branch manager's home computer in Georgia has grown into Italy's biggest banking scandal in years. Last week the disgrace claimed the two top officers of Italy's largest bank, the state-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Chairman Nerio Nesi, 64, and Director General Giacomo Pedde, 62, resigned after the bank's board heard the results of an initial probe into a scam in which the bank's Atlanta branch gave $2.6 billion worth of unauthorized export credits to Iraq to buy machinery and agricultural goods...
...fascinating, if as yet inconclusive, link between the Red Brigades and the Soviet bloc. In prison depositions, he claimed that the Red Brigades had been in contact with the Bulgarian embassy in Rome. One of the supposed intermediaries was Luigi Scricciolo, 35, an official of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro, one of Italy's largest trade union federations, and an alleged Red Brigades undercover agent. After Dozier was kidnaped, the embassy reportedly was willing to offer assistance in exchange for any NATO secrets the kidnapers might pry out of Dozier. (They were unsuccessful...
...Grassini, chief of the Interior Ministry's secret intelligence service; and General Giuseppe Santovito, head of the Military Information and Security Service. Financiers included a top official of the Banco di Roma, Italy's third largest bank, and a former director-general of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, the country's largest...