Mani Pulite 1992 what mean Italy

"It all started one winter morning, on February 17, 1992, when, with a warrant, a car with a flashing light blue stopped at Pio Albergo Trivulzio and took the president, the engineer Mario Chiesa, member of the Party Italian Socialist with the ambition to become mayor of Milan. They catch him while he has just pocketed a seven million dollar bill, half of the agreement, by the owner of a small cleaning company who, like other suppliers, has to pay his rent, 10 percent of the contract which in that case amounted to 140 million [1]. » Tangentopoli began on 17 February 1992. The public prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro asked and obtained from the GIP Italo Ghitti an arrest order for the engineer Mario Chiesa, president of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio and a leading member of the Milanese PSI. Chiesa had been caught red-handed while he pocketed a bribe from the Monzese entrepreneur Luca Magni who, tired of paying, had reported him asking for help from the police. Magni, in agreement with the Carabinieri and with Di Pietro, entered the office of Mario Chiesa at 5:30 pm, bringing with him 7 million lire, corresponding to half of a bribe requested by him; the contract obtained by the Magni company was in fact 140 million and Church had demanded 10% for itself, then a 14 million bribe. Magni had a hidden microphone and camera, and as soon as Church put the money back in a desk drawer, telling herself to be ready to settle the transaction, the soldiers burst into the room and notified the arrest. Church, at that point, grabbed the fruit of another bribe, this time of 37 million, and took refuge in the adjoining bath, where he tried in vain to get rid of the badly throwing the banknotes in the toilet [2]. The news caused a sensation and ended up on the front pages of newspapers and was taken over by the news. The socialist secretary Bettino Craxi, then engaged in the election campaign for the spring political elections, with the aim of returning to the presidency of the Council, in an interview with Daniela Vergara for the TG3, denied the existence of national corruption , calling Mario Chiesa an "isolated marijuana", a crazy splinter of the otherwise whole PSI, and stating