About corruption

"Illegality, corruption and crooks are still very much a reality in the country" stated yesterday the Italian GAO President Giampaolino. And this 20 years after the scandal of Mani Pulite (clean hands) exploded and Craxi, then Prime Minister, Berlusconi's protector, had to leave Italy in voluntary exile in Tunisia, after stating that what he had done was the norm.

Until he died, Craxi was protected by Ben Ali, the well reputed Tunisian President.  In a prior blog
http://www.aprile25.blogspot.com/2011/02/italy-and-ben-ali.html#links  I described the attitude of former Berlusconi's under-secretary for Foreign Affairs who had praised Ben Ali while he was being kicked out by the Tunisians: her name was Stefania Craxi, the daughter of the CROOK by excellence.

The same day the GAO President makes public his concerns, she does not find anything better than to state that the "Clean Hands" investigations that brought to light the extensive corruption of the Political class in Italy, in fact created major damages to the country leading to a "civic and moral decay" of Italy.

She really has no shame, possibly because she regrets not having had the possibility of getting as rich as her father through corruption. And she was a distinguished representative of Berlusconi's government...

BERLUSCONI'S ITALY AND BEN ALI

Berlusconi and Craxi

There was a Prime Minister, socialist he called himself, named Craxi.

In 1984, as Prime Minister, he issued a decree to legalize the illegal operations of Berlusconi's televisions. The decree was approved in 1985 and we know what happened since then.

In 1985, he got concerned about the tensions between Algeria and Tunisia.

The Italian secret service, in consultation with the Libyan and Algerian authorities, identified a named Ben Ali as a possible solution to the growing crisis in Tunisia.

In 1987, with the help of the Italians, Ben Ali became president. Craxi was no longer a Minister but was the leader of a party member of the Government. According to many sources, and in particular the former chief of the Italian Secret Service, it was Craxi the main master of such coup d'état.

In 1991, it was discovered that he had received 20 billion liras (a hell of a lot of money then) on a secret account in Switzerland...

That was the tip of the iceberg of the corruption of the man who had elevated it to a system of government. But the justice, that same that Berlusconi now attacks, went after him.

In 1994, after demonstrations in the streets, harsh criticism in the press and a loss of parliamentary immunity, he escaped to Tunisia where he lived a luxurious life (thanks to the money he had collected illegally), under the protection of Ben Ali, until he dies in 2000.

During the recent Tunisian crisis, the TG1 (main news on public TV in Italy, directed by a servant, or better prostitute, of Berlusconi was broadcasting a service from its correspondent in Tunisia who was describing how corrupt, violent and anti-democratic was Ben Ali. Suddenly the broadcast was stopped for no reason (normally they apologize for technical problems). Shortly after, the same TG did broadcast an interview during which the interviewed person praised Ben Ali, what he had done the economic development of Tunisia and so on and so forth...

The person interviewed was the vice-minister for Foreign Affairs (and of course the Minister did not contradict her subsequently)

Her name: Stefania CRAXI. Craxi? Yes, the daughter of Bettino Craxi, the crook who helped Berlusconi.

A full circle....a shameful demonstration of the intellectual corruption, to say the least, of Berlusconi and his clique and of his Minister for Affaris, Frattini.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettino_Craxi             

              http://www.repubblica.it/online/fatti/afri/nigro/nigro.html             
              http://www.siciliainformazioni.com/articoloLight.zsp?id=114832

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