Mr Bondi will have to prove in court that, as he alleges, the bank has hidden documents and blocked his access to important information about transactions in some offshore-banking centres.

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"And I believe that he may have hidden some documents or changed some documents before he left the country, " al-Maliki said.

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This week, the Bank of Italy released a statement in Italian saying that the "true nature of certain transactions regarding the Monte dei Paschi di Siena reported in the press has emerged only recently, following the discovery of documents kept hidden to the supervisory authority and brought to light by the new management of MPS".

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