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Thu 05 May 2009Claim Berlusconi paid perjury bribe
ITALIAN PRIME minister Silvio Berlusconi this week finds himself in a familiar, if uncomfortable place. For the umpteenth time in his 15-year political career, the prime minister faces serious accusations of corruption following the release of the motivazioni(the judge’s full explanation) of the February sentence which saw his onetime London-based lawyer, David Mills, receive a 4½-year jail sentence from a Milan court.
In her 376-page account of the case, judge Nicoletta Gandus comes to the firm conclusion Mr Mills perjured himself by offering less-than-complete testimony during Milan trails in the late 1990s in which the prime minister stood accused of fraud and corruption.
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