Word: sirocco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parties in return for public-works contracts has uncovered what now seems to be the largest public-corruption scandal in modern European history. Operation Clean Hands, run by five judicial prosecutors from a warren of fusty offices in Milan, has swept through Italy's corridors of power like a sirocco. Once confined to Milan, Clean Hands has now reached 21 cities. More than 800 people have been arrested and an additional 1,000 are thought to be under investigation...