Silvio Berlusconi faces five-year prison sentence, called by Italian prosecutors of the tax lawyer bribery case.

Milan / NationalTurk – Italian prosecutors have called for ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to be sentenced to five years in jail for bribing his former tax lawyer back in the 90’s according to Italian media report.

“It is certain, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the defendant [Mr Berlusconi] is guilty,” prosecutor Fabio De Pasquale told an Italian court on Wednesday.

Silvio Berlusconi’s defence is based on false documents, the Italian prosecutor stated.

Silvio Berlusconi :  Man of countless trials

Berlusconi is accused of paying British tax lawyer David Mills $US600,000 to give false testimony in several trials against the then- media tycoon / politician / club chairman in the 1990s. Recently resigned Italian Prime Minister denies all charges and accuses prosecutors of plotting against him.

Mills, a specialist in offshore tax havens, was convicted by a Milan court in 2009 and sentenced to 4,5 years in prison, but an appeals court concluded the corruption case in 2010 because it was prescribed.Now Italian prosecutors want to put ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in prison for five years for bribing his former lawyer to lie in court.

Four trials against Silvio Berlusconi are under way in Milan for cases ranging from paying a minor for sex to corruption. He denies having done anything wrong in all the cases and says he’s a victim of political persecution by a left-wing Milan magistrate.

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