What is the biggest political scandal ever happened in your country?
May 20, 2025
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Our president accepted a 400 million $ plane from Qatar and claimed it wasn’t a bribe…oh hang on that never happened
Either the Thorpe affair or Profumo affair for all time no.1, in my lifetime though I haven’t seen a scandal as big as the Downing street covid party. A prime minister breaking their own law is unheard of before Boris.
$1 billion got stolen from three of Moldova’s national banks in 2014. That’s 12% of the country’s GDP. Till this day nobody was arrested for it
Son of Umberto Bossi buy a degree in Albania using the parry refund money.
Lega using party refund money to invest in diamonds getting fined, found guilty, agreed to pay in 90 years, still complain about judge.
Silvio Berlusconi nominating his dentist and lover at regional senate.
Silvio Berlusconi isung the parlament to avoid going to jail including creating a new juridical section in north italy and a new court so the process must start from scratch and fellony gets too old to being processed or using journalists to follow judges and make gosssips about them
Andreotti kissing the chief of Mafia
Many politicians cheering as earthquake destroys city in central italy because now we can rebuild in emergency procedure ( no checks on companies )
The whole manipulite process that almost destroyed half of the parliament
In Ireland in the late 1960’s there was a covert conspiracy that went to the highest offices in the land to send weapons over the border to Northern Ireland to the IRA to fight the British army. There were also plans to train IRA members using the army of the Republic.
Plans were to scratch off identification numbers etc to hide the weapon’s origins etc. This could have caused an all out war between Ireland and the UK and an all-out civil war on the island of Ireland.
I’m Maltese, and our current Labour Government stopped giving a fuck. They have systematically taken over the institutions that are meant to safeguard the electorate, and have broken every rule in the book. There is a weekly if not daily scandal directly related to the Labour Party. To add insult to injury, our main party in opposition is also choosing which rules and regulations that should follow like its some a la carte menu.
Spain: if we don’t take into account the coup d’etat and 40 years of fascist dictatorship I would say the biggest scandal has been the GAL case.
The government used police forces to kidnap, torture and murder people from the basque country that were suspects of being members of the ETA terrorist group. The president at the time (Felipe Gonzalez) was not charged with anything and even today he tries to lecture us about democracy.
Only one I can think of is when prince Bernhard (husband of the Dutch queen Juliana) accepted a one million bribe from Lockheed in 1976 to buy his influence for military contracts.
I think that would be the Affaire Dreyfus. To give a very short summary: In 1894, French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason; the case (supported by forged evidence and raw antisemitism) tore France in two until new proof cleared him and the Republic restored his honor in 1906.
People went in exile, it had lasting consequences on French politics, pretty much to this day, in some ways it was the birth of the French far right and of Frenchn republican socialism. It inspired the Résistance during WW2. It’s also considered to be the beginning of the media as the “fourth power” in France.
Of course it’s not entirely true – the media already played a great role in previous scandals, and French society was already divided before that etc, but it’s still such a meaningful scandal that it’s taught in class to this day.
[Tangentopoli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_pulite) (Bribesville in English) is hard to beat in Italy. The last 30 years of Italian politics are virtually impossible to understand without it.
In a nutshell, it uncovered that corruptions and bribes were not only widespread but common at all levels of government, after a relatively routine investigation on some minor bribes lead judge Antonio Di Pietro (later himself a prominent politician) to a whole system of bribes.
It ended to a complete wipe out of all parties that governed Italy after WWII. None survived unscathed. The Socialist Party (Italy’s oldest party) completely dissolved, with its secretary and former PM Bettino Craxi escaping jail by moving to Tunisia, where he died in 2000. Democrazia Cristiana, the dominant party of postwar Italy, always in government for 40 years, split into dozens of smaller parties.
Among the other effects, Silvio Berlusconi, who was Craxi’s protege, decided to enter politics in the aftermath of the scandal – allegedly to avoid being arrested himself.
Oh well, easy: Tangentopoli (translatable as Bribeville) in 1992-1993.
Throughout the 1980s there had been minor corruption scandals, serious organised crime problems (thousands of deaths in Mafia feuds with murders even of policemen, judges and politicians) and a general feeling that a Cold War-based politics was losing its meaning without the Soviet bogeyman. In short, esteem for politics as a whole was at an all-time low.
It was in this climate that Mario Chiesa, a small-time socialist politician from Milan, was arrested for corruption. He was dumped by his party and then began to talk. A lot. He involved other politicians and businessmen in the investigation. Who were arrested. And others were involved. And others still.
Within a couple of years, the investigation unveiled a huge, country-wide system of corruption and bribery in which paying politicians in order to do business was taken for granted and inevitable. The top leaders of all five governing parties were involved. There were 25,000 suspects, 4,000 arrests, 1,300 convictions.
Parties that had governed for 50 years were annihilated and disappeared from the political scene. An enormous political space opened up in the centre and to the right, which was filled by the rise of Silvio Berlusconi. Italy went from a centrist system with the Christian Democrats in government for 50 uninterrupted years to a bipolar system in which left and right alternate in government.
I don’t know where to begin lol 🙂 but if I have to choose the biggest then it would be “Mani Pulite”, the corruption scandal that in the 90s wiped out all existing political parties. Yes ALL OF THEM.
The Arms Crisis of 1970 when two government ministers provided funds for the IRA to purchase weapons
We sent a turkey to represent us at Eurovision. Same turkey has also ran for President.
We sometimes wonder why we are not taken seriously.
Marc Dutroux is famous paedophile who kidnapped little girls and kept them in his basement, where they eventually died from starvation. This was in itself a huge scandal but not a political one. But it was later found that the two police forces investigating the case — the Gendarmerie (Rijkswacht) and the Police (Politie) — had hid clues from one another because they each wanted the “glory” of solving this case for themselves, thereby delaying progress on the case, whereas they potentially could have saved the girls if they collaborated.
I’m from Northern Ireland. Arguably one of the biggest political scandals we’ve ever had is the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, (formerly the largest political party) Sir Jeffrey Donaldson receiving 13 charges of indecent assault, four charges of gross indecency and one charge of rape. His wife faces five charges in relation to aiding and abetting.
He hasn’t been convicted as of yet and is to face trial, however rumours have circulated for many years of him being part of a pedophile ring involving the Kincora boy’s home. Lord Mountbatten and Donaldson’s mentor Enoch Powell were also alleged members of this pedophile ring. Assuming this is all indeed true and he is convicted, I hope his fellow prisoners treat him accordingly.
There is also the RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive Scandal) of which cash incentives were given out by the government to support a renewable energy wood pellet burning scheme. It potentially cost the public purse £500 million. There were a large number of people who exploited the scheme as the rate paid by the government was more than the cost of the fuel itself and thus the scheme could be exploited for profit. Our Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness resigned out of protest over the First Minister’s involvement in the scheme and her refusal to step down herself. Arlene Foster was also the Minster for Enterprise, Trade and Investment at the time. Martin McGuinness’ resignation resulted in the power sharing executive collapsing and we were effectively without a local government for nearly three years, from 2017 to 2020.
The Netherlands:
The Brothers Wit (De gebroeders Wit).
Brother Johan de Wit was one of the most influencial politicians back in 1660. Together with his brother Cornelis de Wit, they were murdered in the most gruesome ways.
He was something like a governour, but with ties to the then royal family. The full story is too long to tell, you can look it up.
But long story short, he commited high treason. They murdered him and his brother in very tormenting and painfull ways. Then, pieces of their meat and clothing were sold for low prices on the local market. Pieces like toes, ears and even lips were cut of. But the main torso, cut open, was displayed for YEARS. This all because his punishment for the treason was too low, according to the locals of The Hague.
Even nowadays I wouldn’t give somebody that kind of death, torture and humiliation.
In recent times probably:
The Haijby affair – during the 50’s a man, Kurt Haijby was convicted for extortion after (allegedly) having an affair with King Gustav V during many years. The case is seen as a miscarriage of justice today.
The Geijer affair – many high ranking officials, including the sitting minister of justice Lennart Geijer, was named in PM alleging them of having paid for sex. The case was swept under the rug by the highest level of government.
The Toblerone affair – the Swedish Minister of Labor Mona Sahlin was accused of charging private expenses on her official card, including a Toblerone. It was effectively the end of a promising career that could have resulted in the first Swedish female prime minister.
The current case with the security advisors to PM Kristersson are pretty bad as well, but misplaced secret files and dick picks is not really sensational these days.
In the past few years, we had so many scandals that I stopped counting – eventually, the chancellor and parts of his government had to resign.
Before that, we had Ibiza (which was the most embarrassing and at the same time the funniest one – members of the right wing party were set up with the help of an Eastern European callgirl who pretended to be a rich Russian that wanted to support the party, lots of alcohol and white powder were consumed in a finca on Ibiza while hidden cameras were filming), we had Lucona (insurance fraud with several casualties that involved members of the government), but the biggest one was probably Noricum (illegal arms trade)- the Chancellor, the secretary of the interior, and the foreign secretary were brought to court.
We have two
1.
One of the biggest political scandals in Hungary’s modern history is the Őszöd speech scandal of 2006.
In May 2006, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) gave a closed-door speech to his party members in Balatonőszöd. The speech was leaked in September 2006, and in it, he admitted that:
“We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening… We screwed up. Not just a little. Big time.”
2.
It happened recently, former president of the Hungarian National Bank, György Matolcsy, stole 500 billion forints (~1,24 Billion Euros) through foundations. One of the most significant financial scandals in Hungary’s recent history. The scandal has been labeled by some media outlets as the “biggest bank robbery in history.”
Well apart from the big, obvious one, its probably the CDU donation scandal. Where a bunch of high caliber CDU polititicans accepted donations illegally.
But imo the more damaging scandal was the constant blocking of policies and the attempted coup of the FDP and Christian Lindner in our last government. This made the whole coalition look bad and incompetent and led (in part) to the high amount of AFD votes.
The infamous Black Credit Cards that a few political elite owned. Basically some politicians had direct access to our tax money. Literally stealing the nationa money for free, the politicians bought mansions, yatchs, realestate, everything you can think of.
Without a doubt the Profumo Affair. Secretary of State John Profumo was having an affair with a 19-year-old model who was also having an affair with the Soviet naval attaché. It was never conclusively proven she was passing secrets to the Soviets, but there was a lot of circumstantial evidence.
Too many to count tbqh.
Anything from Diag Human (Cancelled procurement for blood plasma that started in 1993 and only “ended” now in 2025 with State having to pay 17 billion CZK), leasing Gripens from Sweden for too much, buying Pandurs for three times the price, Opencard (prague public transport card) that ended up being too expensive for the city to maintain (proceeds went to private companies), infamous Vrbětice sabotage by russian GUR agents and the subsequent “cover-up” of top secret information by president Zeman, president Klaus’ amnesties that pardoned people in countless corruption scandals and affairs.
Funny unfunny bullshit like “Hitler is a gentleman” quote that the then-president Zeman fabricated and attributed to the famous czech journalist Ferdinand Peroutka, who spent the entirety of WW2 in Buchenwald concentration camp for being democratic and anti-nazi.
Not necessarily the biggest political scandal, but a very strange one happened in Norway a couple of years ago.
One of the Progress Party (FrP) ministers got racist slogans painted on their house and even had an arson attack against their car. At first, everyone thought it was a serious hate crime and it got a lot of attention in the media. But then it turned out that it was actually the minister’s wife (!) who had done it herself….she got arrested and even [had to serve time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Mikkel_Wara).
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark signed a painting she didn’t create as part of a charity auction. Known as Paintergate, it led to a slide in support for her political party.
Our prime minister was caught having underage prostitutes at his parties. He then proceeded to publicly say “Better fucking a pretty girl than being gay”.
We elected this man three times.
We also had a corruption scandal that went so deep it wiped out all of our political parties, but, you know. That happens I guess.
The Spanish popular party gave 50,000,000,000 to the banks in exchange for nothing, they returned 10%
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Our president accepted a 400 million $ plane from Qatar and claimed it wasn’t a bribe…oh hang on that never happened
Either the Thorpe affair or Profumo affair for all time no.1, in my lifetime though I haven’t seen a scandal as big as the Downing street covid party. A prime minister breaking their own law is unheard of before Boris.
$1 billion got stolen from three of Moldova’s national banks in 2014. That’s 12% of the country’s GDP. Till this day nobody was arrested for it
Looking back now it doesn’t seem such a big deal but at the time the [Profumo affair ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profumo_affair)was a huge thing.
Oh boy, let’s go by decade.
Son of Umberto Bossi buy a degree in Albania using the parry refund money.
Lega using party refund money to invest in diamonds getting fined, found guilty, agreed to pay in 90 years, still complain about judge.
Silvio Berlusconi nominating his dentist and lover at regional senate.
Silvio Berlusconi isung the parlament to avoid going to jail including creating a new juridical section in north italy and a new court so the process must start from scratch and fellony gets too old to being processed or using journalists to follow judges and make gosssips about them
Andreotti kissing the chief of Mafia
Many politicians cheering as earthquake destroys city in central italy because now we can rebuild in emergency procedure ( no checks on companies )
The whole manipulite process that almost destroyed half of the parliament
In Ireland in the late 1960’s there was a covert conspiracy that went to the highest offices in the land to send weapons over the border to Northern Ireland to the IRA to fight the British army. There were also plans to train IRA members using the army of the Republic.
Plans were to scratch off identification numbers etc to hide the weapon’s origins etc. This could have caused an all out war between Ireland and the UK and an all-out civil war on the island of Ireland.
I’m Maltese, and our current Labour Government stopped giving a fuck. They have systematically taken over the institutions that are meant to safeguard the electorate, and have broken every rule in the book. There is a weekly if not daily scandal directly related to the Labour Party. To add insult to injury, our main party in opposition is also choosing which rules and regulations that should follow like its some a la carte menu.
Spain: if we don’t take into account the coup d’etat and 40 years of fascist dictatorship I would say the biggest scandal has been the GAL case.
The government used police forces to kidnap, torture and murder people from the basque country that were suspects of being members of the ETA terrorist group. The president at the time (Felipe Gonzalez) was not charged with anything and even today he tries to lecture us about democracy.
Only one I can think of is when prince Bernhard (husband of the Dutch queen Juliana) accepted a one million bribe from Lockheed in 1976 to buy his influence for military contracts.
I think that would be the Affaire Dreyfus. To give a very short summary: In 1894, French Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason; the case (supported by forged evidence and raw antisemitism) tore France in two until new proof cleared him and the Republic restored his honor in 1906.
People went in exile, it had lasting consequences on French politics, pretty much to this day, in some ways it was the birth of the French far right and of Frenchn republican socialism. It inspired the Résistance during WW2. It’s also considered to be the beginning of the media as the “fourth power” in France.
Of course it’s not entirely true – the media already played a great role in previous scandals, and French society was already divided before that etc, but it’s still such a meaningful scandal that it’s taught in class to this day.
Probably in recent memory the “[toeslagenaffaire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scandal)” where parents were wrongly accused of fraud.
[Tangentopoli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_pulite) (Bribesville in English) is hard to beat in Italy. The last 30 years of Italian politics are virtually impossible to understand without it.
In a nutshell, it uncovered that corruptions and bribes were not only widespread but common at all levels of government, after a relatively routine investigation on some minor bribes lead judge Antonio Di Pietro (later himself a prominent politician) to a whole system of bribes.
It ended to a complete wipe out of all parties that governed Italy after WWII. None survived unscathed. The Socialist Party (Italy’s oldest party) completely dissolved, with its secretary and former PM Bettino Craxi escaping jail by moving to Tunisia, where he died in 2000. Democrazia Cristiana, the dominant party of postwar Italy, always in government for 40 years, split into dozens of smaller parties.
Among the other effects, Silvio Berlusconi, who was Craxi’s protege, decided to enter politics in the aftermath of the scandal – allegedly to avoid being arrested himself.
Oh well, easy: Tangentopoli (translatable as Bribeville) in 1992-1993.
Throughout the 1980s there had been minor corruption scandals, serious organised crime problems (thousands of deaths in Mafia feuds with murders even of policemen, judges and politicians) and a general feeling that a Cold War-based politics was losing its meaning without the Soviet bogeyman. In short, esteem for politics as a whole was at an all-time low.
It was in this climate that Mario Chiesa, a small-time socialist politician from Milan, was arrested for corruption. He was dumped by his party and then began to talk. A lot. He involved other politicians and businessmen in the investigation. Who were arrested. And others were involved. And others still.
Within a couple of years, the investigation unveiled a huge, country-wide system of corruption and bribery in which paying politicians in order to do business was taken for granted and inevitable. The top leaders of all five governing parties were involved. There were 25,000 suspects, 4,000 arrests, 1,300 convictions.
Parties that had governed for 50 years were annihilated and disappeared from the political scene. An enormous political space opened up in the centre and to the right, which was filled by the rise of Silvio Berlusconi. Italy went from a centrist system with the Christian Democrats in government for 50 uninterrupted years to a bipolar system in which left and right alternate in government.
I don’t know where to begin lol 🙂 but if I have to choose the biggest then it would be “Mani Pulite”, the corruption scandal that in the 90s wiped out all existing political parties. Yes ALL OF THEM.
The Arms Crisis of 1970 when two government ministers provided funds for the IRA to purchase weapons
We sent a turkey to represent us at Eurovision. Same turkey has also ran for President.
We sometimes wonder why we are not taken seriously.
Marc Dutroux is famous paedophile who kidnapped little girls and kept them in his basement, where they eventually died from starvation. This was in itself a huge scandal but not a political one. But it was later found that the two police forces investigating the case — the Gendarmerie (Rijkswacht) and the Police (Politie) — had hid clues from one another because they each wanted the “glory” of solving this case for themselves, thereby delaying progress on the case, whereas they potentially could have saved the girls if they collaborated.
I’m from Northern Ireland. Arguably one of the biggest political scandals we’ve ever had is the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, (formerly the largest political party) Sir Jeffrey Donaldson receiving 13 charges of indecent assault, four charges of gross indecency and one charge of rape. His wife faces five charges in relation to aiding and abetting.
He hasn’t been convicted as of yet and is to face trial, however rumours have circulated for many years of him being part of a pedophile ring involving the Kincora boy’s home. Lord Mountbatten and Donaldson’s mentor Enoch Powell were also alleged members of this pedophile ring. Assuming this is all indeed true and he is convicted, I hope his fellow prisoners treat him accordingly.
There is also the RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive Scandal) of which cash incentives were given out by the government to support a renewable energy wood pellet burning scheme. It potentially cost the public purse £500 million. There were a large number of people who exploited the scheme as the rate paid by the government was more than the cost of the fuel itself and thus the scheme could be exploited for profit. Our Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness resigned out of protest over the First Minister’s involvement in the scheme and her refusal to step down herself. Arlene Foster was also the Minster for Enterprise, Trade and Investment at the time. Martin McGuinness’ resignation resulted in the power sharing executive collapsing and we were effectively without a local government for nearly three years, from 2017 to 2020.
I mean… [we had some of the finest scandal with the right wing politician at the gay orgy during lockdown](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55145989.amp)
The Netherlands:
The Brothers Wit (De gebroeders Wit).
Brother Johan de Wit was one of the most influencial politicians back in 1660. Together with his brother Cornelis de Wit, they were murdered in the most gruesome ways.
He was something like a governour, but with ties to the then royal family. The full story is too long to tell, you can look it up.
But long story short, he commited high treason. They murdered him and his brother in very tormenting and painfull ways. Then, pieces of their meat and clothing were sold for low prices on the local market. Pieces like toes, ears and even lips were cut of. But the main torso, cut open, was displayed for YEARS. This all because his punishment for the treason was too low, according to the locals of The Hague.
Even nowadays I wouldn’t give somebody that kind of death, torture and humiliation.
In recent times probably:
The Haijby affair – during the 50’s a man, Kurt Haijby was convicted for extortion after (allegedly) having an affair with King Gustav V during many years. The case is seen as a miscarriage of justice today.
The Geijer affair – many high ranking officials, including the sitting minister of justice Lennart Geijer, was named in PM alleging them of having paid for sex. The case was swept under the rug by the highest level of government.
The Toblerone affair – the Swedish Minister of Labor Mona Sahlin was accused of charging private expenses on her official card, including a Toblerone. It was effectively the end of a promising career that could have resulted in the first Swedish female prime minister.
The current case with the security advisors to PM Kristersson are pretty bad as well, but misplaced secret files and dick picks is not really sensational these days.
In the past few years, we had so many scandals that I stopped counting – eventually, the chancellor and parts of his government had to resign.
Before that, we had Ibiza (which was the most embarrassing and at the same time the funniest one – members of the right wing party were set up with the help of an Eastern European callgirl who pretended to be a rich Russian that wanted to support the party, lots of alcohol and white powder were consumed in a finca on Ibiza while hidden cameras were filming), we had Lucona (insurance fraud with several casualties that involved members of the government), but the biggest one was probably Noricum (illegal arms trade)- the Chancellor, the secretary of the interior, and the foreign secretary were brought to court.
We have two
1.
One of the biggest political scandals in Hungary’s modern history is the Őszöd speech scandal of 2006.
In May 2006, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) gave a closed-door speech to his party members in Balatonőszöd. The speech was leaked in September 2006, and in it, he admitted that:
“We lied in the morning, we lied in the evening… We screwed up. Not just a little. Big time.”
2.
It happened recently, former president of the Hungarian National Bank, György Matolcsy, stole 500 billion forints (~1,24 Billion Euros) through foundations. One of the most significant financial scandals in Hungary’s recent history. The scandal has been labeled by some media outlets as the “biggest bank robbery in history.”
Well apart from the big, obvious one, its probably the CDU donation scandal. Where a bunch of high caliber CDU polititicans accepted donations illegally.
But imo the more damaging scandal was the constant blocking of policies and the attempted coup of the FDP and Christian Lindner in our last government. This made the whole coalition look bad and incompetent and led (in part) to the high amount of AFD votes.
The infamous Black Credit Cards that a few political elite owned. Basically some politicians had direct access to our tax money. Literally stealing the nationa money for free, the politicians bought mansions, yatchs, realestate, everything you can think of.
Without a doubt the Profumo Affair. Secretary of State John Profumo was having an affair with a 19-year-old model who was also having an affair with the Soviet naval attaché. It was never conclusively proven she was passing secrets to the Soviets, but there was a lot of circumstantial evidence.
Too many to count tbqh.
Anything from Diag Human (Cancelled procurement for blood plasma that started in 1993 and only “ended” now in 2025 with State having to pay 17 billion CZK), leasing Gripens from Sweden for too much, buying Pandurs for three times the price, Opencard (prague public transport card) that ended up being too expensive for the city to maintain (proceeds went to private companies), infamous Vrbětice sabotage by russian GUR agents and the subsequent “cover-up” of top secret information by president Zeman, president Klaus’ amnesties that pardoned people in countless corruption scandals and affairs.
Funny unfunny bullshit like “Hitler is a gentleman” quote that the then-president Zeman fabricated and attributed to the famous czech journalist Ferdinand Peroutka, who spent the entirety of WW2 in Buchenwald concentration camp for being democratic and anti-nazi.
Not necessarily the biggest political scandal, but a very strange one happened in Norway a couple of years ago.
One of the Progress Party (FrP) ministers got racist slogans painted on their house and even had an arson attack against their car. At first, everyone thought it was a serious hate crime and it got a lot of attention in the media. But then it turned out that it was actually the minister’s wife (!) who had done it herself….she got arrested and even [had to serve time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Mikkel_Wara).
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark signed a painting she didn’t create as part of a charity auction. Known as Paintergate, it led to a slide in support for her political party.
Our prime minister was caught having underage prostitutes at his parties. He then proceeded to publicly say “Better fucking a pretty girl than being gay”.
We elected this man three times.
We also had a corruption scandal that went so deep it wiped out all of our political parties, but, you know. That happens I guess.
The Spanish popular party gave 50,000,000,000 to the banks in exchange for nothing, they returned 10%
Ireland has had a few.
* 1970 The [Arms Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Crisis): Division in Irish Cabinet when two ministers arranged to import arms for the IRA in Northern Ireland
* 1982 [The “GUBU” Affair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUBU): Attorney General flies abroad as fugitive double-murderer is arrested in his apartment
* 2000 The [Moriarty Tribunal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriarty_Tribunal) investigates allegations of corruption on the part of [Charlie Haughey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Haughey) and [Michael Lowry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lowry_(politician))
* 2008 [Personal Finances of Bertie Ahern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Ahern#Admission_of_undeclared_payments): Following criticism by both the Mahon and Moriarty tribunals, the former Taoiseach’s personal finances come under scrutiny by the media
We are probably in the midst of one right now with politicians and connected individuals making millions from housing “asylum seekers”.
[https://gript.ie/a-e5-billion-cash-cow-whos-making-big-money-on-asylum-services/](https://gript.ie/a-e5-billion-cash-cow-whos-making-big-money-on-asylum-services/)