And yet, this sounds amateurish compared to the exact same scandal in Italy, but on a national scale: the "official" tourism portal: http://www.italia.it/en/home.html.

It had been calculated that direct and indirect costs of the project summed up to about 140M€ over the years.

At the time, someone put up a dedicated blog on the subject: http://scandaloitaliano.wordpress.com/

The WSJ was on it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121969807244970447.html

It even won a wikipedia entry: http://translate.google.it/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=h...