The Bank of Italy, the ultimate arbiter of Italian banking mergers, has been engulfed by scandal since police wire taps revealed Fazio and his wife advised a local banker in a bid for bank Antonveneta against Dutch bank ABN AMRO.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Italian police sometimes wire tap people.

Choose from: (a). Yes; (b). It's impossible to say; (c). No;
(a).