Berlusconi to be tried for fraud

[Matt W]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5159198.stm

An Italian judge has ruled that former PM Silvio Berlusconi should stand trial over alleged fraud concerning his family's media company Mediaset. He is one of 14 people sent for trial by Judge Fabio Paparella in the northern city of Milan. It follows an investigation into claims of embezzlement, false accounting, tax fraud and money laundering in TV rights deals between 1994 and 1999. The trial is set to begin in November. Mr Berlusconi denies any wrongdoing.

[dreamer]

ink. http://www.channel4.com/news/content...jsp?id=1552369 .

The estranged husband of Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is to stand trial in Italy along with the country's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. It is alleged David Mills, a lawyer, received a bribe in return for giving Berlusconi favourable evidence in two corruption cases. It follows a four-year fraud investigation into the broadcasting firm owned by the Berlusconi family.

Jowell's M.P husband to stand trial aswell as Silvio Berlusconi.

[Nono]

As the author Tim Parks has pointed out, Berlusconi devoted all his energy to keeping himself in power, and thus out of jail. And that was no mean feat.

Now that he's out of power, he's instantly on trial. What a country.

[dreamer]

Now that he's out of power, he's instantly on trial. What a country.

Yes these people who think there above the law , it catches up with them.