Italian magistrate who led "Clean Hands" graft probes dies


  • World
  • Sunday, 21 Jul 2019

FILE PHOTO: Francesco Borrelli, a retired judge investigating Italy's soccer scandal on behalf of the game's governing body, speaks with Lazio team supporters at Italian Football Federation (FIGC) headquarters during an inquiry in Rome June 9, 2006. REUTERS/Dario Pignatelli (ITALY)/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Francesco Saverio Borrelli, the Italian magistrate who headed the "Clean Hands" corruption investigations in the early 1990s that swept away an entire political class, has died, his family said on Saturday.

He was 89 and died in a Milan hospital.

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