WORLD IN BRIEF : ITALY : Corruption Scandal Fells Energy Bosses
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Three top managers in Italy’s state-controlled energy conglomerate were arrested in a mushrooming corruption scandal. Pio Pigorini, Gianni Dell’Orto and Raffaele Santoro were taken into custody two days after the chairman of the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi conglomerate was placed under arrest.
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