Elio Veltri

In 1981, in polemics with the PSI's then secretary Bettino Craxi about the growing bribery involvement of its members, he was expelled together with Franco Bassanini, Tristano Codignola, and others.

In 1985, he was elected in the Lombardy regional council for the Proletarian Democracy (Democrazia Proletaria) party.

In the 1996 Italian general election, Veltri was elected to the country's Chamber of Deputies for The Olive Tree (L'Ulivo) coalition and the Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra); he became a member of the parliamentary commissions dealing with mafia and corruption.

The following year, Veltri founded the Democracy and Legality (Democrazia e Legalità) association, which has published an online journal since 2001.

In 2001, he also published L'odore dei soldi (The Money Smell), a report about bribery in Italy written with Marco Travaglio, another investigative journalist.