Berlusconi goes on trial

[lovuian]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21374088-2703,00.html

FORMER Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi will be in the dock once again today, along with his British former tax lawyer David Mills, when their trial opens in Milan.
Mr Berlusconi, 70, is accused of paying Mr Mills $US600,000 ($765,000) in exchange for favourable testimony during two other trials in the late 1990s.

The two face prison terms of between four and 12 years if convicted.

The pair and a dozen other defendants stand accused, in a separate trial, of tax fraud in the 1999 purchase of film rights in the US by Mediaset, the television group owned by the Berlusconi family.

The former prime minister is accused of money laundering by using offshore companies to buy the film rights between 1994 and 1999 and then reselling them at inflated prices to Mediaset, which as a result paid less tax in Italy.
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Another Bush Buddy on trial

[Amonester]

1. Goes to show it doesn't matter which country they're in...

The "new" millennium plutocrats act all the same: criminally.

They have absolutely no regard for the laws of the lands they live in...

They have no shame either.

Same happened in the 1930's and early 1940's.

[lovuian]

2. kick

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