The Milan Attorney”s Office officially demanded to prosecute Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for involvement in a phone-tapping case, illegally.
The appeal was lodged by fiscal Maurizio Romanelli after accepting petition of examining magistrate Stefania Donadeo after she refused to close the file on Berlusconi’s cause last September 15.
The denunciation said the Prime Minister was involved in publishing, in the Il Giornale newspaper owned by his brother Paolo,official secrets of irregular purchase of the National Italian Bank by Unipol company.
The fact in question date back to 2005 when the quoted newspaper revealed a phone tapped conversation between the tehn leade of the left-wing Democratic Party Piero Fassino and Unipol President Giovanni Consorte.
The investigation proved that Roberto Raffaelli, director of the research Control System Company (RSC), in charged of the phone-tapping, showed the recording to Berlusconi’s brothers who showed their satisfaction and appreciation instead of their disapproving them.
If he is sent to trial that will be the fifth case opened against the Head of Government that denounces his country’s justice for orchestrating actions to damage his political reputation.
So is Berlusconi going to be the next head to fall after an alleged phone tapping scandal? It’s funny that after al of his indiscretions that he might finally fall to something that has been kicked all around Europe and started with the Murdoch News of the World scandal.
James @ phonetapping.org