…s for having sex with an underage prostitute. It was reported that Silvio Berlusconi have paid Moroccan born belly dancer Karima El Mahroug to spend the night at his villa near Milan when she was just 17 and therefore still a minor under Italian law. Silvio Berlusconi is also said to have paid 32 other women for sexual favors with cash, jewellery and cars to attend the parties and the trial is set…
…ined direct contact with Silvio Berlusconi and received the cash in monthly installments from the prime minister’s personal secretary. It was in a phone conversation with Valter Lavitola late on 13 July that Silvio Berlusconi was said by the judge to have erupted in anger. “They can say about me that I screw. It’s the only thing they can say about me. Is that clear?” he sai…
…ail term for tax fraud Silvio Berlusconi’s lawyers said on Friday that he would appeal against the four-year jail sentence for tax fraud, according to media reports. The appeal will be lodged by 10 November, reports said, and could take several years. A furious Silvio Berlusconi went on national television on Friday to condemn the sentence as “intolerable judicial harassment”. He…
Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi’s conviction for tax fraud has been upheld by an appeals court in Milan. The court also reinstated a four-year prison sentence and five-year ban from public office Silvio Berlusconi was handed in October. Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of artificially inflating prices of film distribution rights bought by his company, Mediaset, to avoid taxes. He is now expect…
Silvio Berlusconi’s lawyers are to appeal against his jail sentence for tax fraud, Italian media has reported. The appeal will be lodged by 10 November, reports said, and could take several years. Former Prime Minister Silvie Berlusconi and others were convicted of inflating the price of distribution rights bought by his Mediaset group to avoid paying taxes. On Friday a Milan court sentenced him…
…sconi on corruption charges. Italian law allows for the scrapping of preliminary hearings, which can last more than a year, when evidence of the alleged crime is considered overwhelming. The judge has 10 days to decide whether to permit an “immediate trial”. Silvio Berlusconi is accused of paying a left-wing senator 3 million euros ($3.9 million) to defect to his right-wing People of F…
…ected theft. Silvio Berlusconi, now 76, is accused of paying to have sex with Karima El-Mahroug – who is widely known as Ruby Rubacuori (“heart-stealer”) – in 2010 when she was 17. In a statement before judges in Milan, he said she was 24 “as she herself said”. Prosecutors maintain that the former prime minister had sex with Karima El-Mahroug on 13 occasions. &#…
…hat threatens the eurozone. He promised to go once MPs had approved new austerity mesasures. Silvio Berlusconi is Italy’s longest-serving post-WWII PM – having dominated political life for 17 years. His premiership has recently been marred by many scandals. Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as Italian prime minister Crowds gathered outside the parliament, shouting “Resign” a…
Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to pay 36 million euros ($48 million) a year to his ex-wife Veronica Lario, reports say. Silvio Berlusconi will keep the $100 million villa where the couple lived with their three children, as part of a divorce deal reportedly filed on Christmas Day. Veronica Lario left Berlusconi in 2009 after he was seen at the 18th birthday party…
…es. Silvio Berlusconi, the 74 year-old Italian Prime Minister has boasted of sleeping with eight women in one night “Yesterday evening there was a queue outside my door,” said Berlusconi. “There were 11. I had eight because I couldn’t go any further. You can’t do all of them.” The Silvio Berlusconi and Tarantini phone chat was in 2009 on New Year’s Day. Silvio Berlusconi added: “I feel good this…
…believed to be a vast personal fortune from his business empire. Silvio Berlusconi told reporters in Milan that everyone in his party had agreed that the PDL needed a leader “like Berlusconi in 1994″ but “there wasn’t one”. Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed he will run for prime minister again in 2013 “It’s not that we did not look… but one needs tim…
…Berlusconi’s Mediaset group. The court handed Silvio Berlusconi a longer sentence than the three years and eight months requested by prosecutors. It ordered him and nine other defendants to pay 10 million euros in damages and banned him from holding public office for three years. Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to four years in jail for tax fraud Both the jail term and the ban would o…
…Monday to testify in Silvio Berlusconi’s trial. The former Italian prime minister is accused of paying for sex with an underage nightclub dancer. The woman, Moroccan-born Karima el-Mahroug, was 17 when she allegedly had sex with the prime minister. Model Imane Fadil said strippers dressed as nuns performed for Silvio Berlusconi at one of his “bunga bunga” parties Silvio Berlusconi is also…
Former prime minister and centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi says he is against the idea of a new technocratic government for Italy like that led by Mario Monti. Instead, Silvio Berlusconi said he was ready to back a coalition with centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani, to end the deadlock since the February election. However, Pier Luigi Bersani, whose bloc won a narrow lead in the polls, has…
Italian judges have thrown out a bribery case against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, because it expired under the statute of limitations. Silvio Berlusconi was accused of paying his former British tax lawyer, David Mills, to lie in court to protect his interests. The case dates back to the 1990’s. Silvio Berlusconi, who denies wrongdoing, says this and other court cases against him are…
Ford India has apologized for an advertisement showing former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi with a group of bound women in the boot of a car. The advert, showing three women bound and gagged in the boot of a Ford Figo, appeared on a website. Silvio Berlusconi was shown in the driver’s seat with a slogan: “Leave your worries behind with Figo’s extra-large boot.” The advert h…
…hem. Il Giornale has repeatedly accused current Italian technocrat prime minister Mario Monti, of not doing enough to stand up to Germany, comparing him to Neville Chamberlain who famously declared in 1938 he had “secured peace in our time” after holding talks with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler only for war to break out the following year. In an interview with Germany weekly news magazine Der Spiegel…
…Napolitano. The coalition brings together Enrico Letta’s Democratic Party (PD) and the People of Freedom party (PDL) of former PM Silvio Berlusconi. The swearing-in is to take place on Sunday at 11:30 local time. Silvio Berlusconi had said he would not be a minister, but had pushed for leading figures from his party to be given top posts. Angelino Alfano, the PDL’s secretary, will beco…
…nditionally. Enrico Letta, once a member of the former centre-right Christian Democrats, is seen as moderate of the left. His uncle, Gianni Letta, has been Silvio Berlusconi’s chief-of-staff for 10 years. A broad political alliance would again make Silvio Berlusconi a major influence. This awkward coming together of bitter rivals is seen as the only way to end the parliamentary stalemate and…
…time to “rescue Italy from financial ruin”. The withdrawal of his political support means that elections are now set for February. Mario Monti replaced Silvio Berlusconi after the Italian 10-year bond yield reached a euro-era record of 7.48% in November 2011, bringing about Berlusconi’s departure. Since then, Italy’s yields have dropped and the focus has shifted to Spain,…
…Monti and his non-party team of ministers have implemented economic austerity measures in the form of spending cuts and tax hikes. In his last speech before his resignation, Mario Monti said the last 13 months had been “difficult but fascinating”. “The work we did… has made the country more trustworthy… more competitive and attractive to foreign investors,” he…
…Hailing Mario Monti’s appointment, EU leaders vowed to monitor Italy’s austerity measures. Mario Monti’s candidature was announced after President Giorgio Napolitano spent the day in 17 meetings with senior politicians. Speaking to reporters shortly afterwards, Mario Monti said Italy should be an “element of strength and not weakness” within the EU. “We will aim…
Outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti is to lead a coalition of centre parties going into Italy’s parliamentary election in February. Speaking to reporters after four hours of talks with centrist politicians, he said he was willing to be “named leader of the coalition”. Mario Monti resigned after 13 months as prime minister when predecessor Silvio Berlusconi withdrew his support….
…udes a rise in VAT and the pension age, a fuel price hike and also the sale of state assets. Following that vote, shares in most European markets rose 2-3%, and the interest rate paid on Italy’s 10-year bonds dropped. International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has welcomed the “significant progress” made in tackling the political crisis in Italy and Greece, where interim…
JWT India has decided to sack employees over a series of controversial Ford Figo advertisements, including one showing former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi with a group of bound women in a car boot. The adverts were never commercially used but appeared on a website. JWT, a unit of the world’s biggest advertising group WPP, said the posters were “distasteful and contrary to standards…
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