The Senate gave final approval on Tuesday night to a bill halting criminal trials against the holders of the four top offices of state — the President, the Prime Minister, and the Speakers of the Senate and Lower House — for as long as they hold a term of office. Of the four, only Mr Berlusconi is currently being prosecuted. The new law exempts Mr Berlusconi from a trial in Milan in which he is charged with having allegedly given David Mills, his former tax lawyer and the estranged husband of Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, a $600,000 bribe to give misleading testimony in a corruption trial in the 1990s involving alleged tax fraud by Mr Berlusconi’s Mediaset empire. Both men are on trial, and both deny the charge.
Appunti di un anonimo italiano
24/7/2008
