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Silvio’s horror show
January 1996.
One of Italy’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, Silvio Berlusconi, who had served an initial, brief term as prime minister in 1994-1995, faces charges of paying $240,000 in bribes to tax officials together with some close associates. The prosecution will also argue that Berlusconi’s holding company, Fininvest, resorted to false accounting and doctored offshore accounts in order to avoid taxes. The charge against Berlusconi will eventually expire under a statute of limitations. By 2009, Berlusconi will have been involved in 2,500 court hearings in different trials, and paid $284 millions in legal fees. (Claudio Papi/Reuters)
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