MILAN (AP) — The world Expo 2015 has been touted as an expression of Italy’s ability to emerge from a long economic crisis, but a bribery scandal involving figures from the country’s Clean Hands probe two decades ago shows little has changed.

Two of the seven suspects arrested in the bribery scheme are former politicians who were jailed during the 1990s in the probe that toppled Italy’s postwar political class, now being investigated as possible middlemen in a series of shady infrastructure deals in Lombardy.

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