By Jaime Ortega.
Silvio Berlusconi finally reached a null point of no return with the Italian Justice after 20 years or never ending problems.
In the past, the former prime minister of Italy has been accused and investigated thirty times starting yesterday, August 1, with the confirmation of the sentence to four years in prison for tax evasion by the Mediaset case by the Supreme Court of Italy.
After two marathon hearings, the High Court decided to refer to a second instance the case for reconsidering the terms of disqualification, which momentarily gives temporally breath to Berlusconi and the Italian government coalition.
Berlusconi’s judicial history has filed 13 investigations, while in the rest of the trials was acquitted and other offenses prescribed. Currently, Berlusconi has outstanding four processes:
The appeal by the ‘Ruby case’, in which he has been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and perpetual disqualification for the exercise of public office on charges of abuse of power and incitement to prostitution.
“You should also start the appeal for the sentence to one year in jail for the crime of violation of the summary with the publication of wiretaps in the newspaper” said “Il Giornale”, owned by his brother Paolo.
Besides being held to a preliminary hearing trial for the alleged purchase in 2007 of Senator Sergio de Gregorio to bring down the government of Romano Prodi. And also the appeal is pending for divorce from his second wife, Veronica Lario.
In the past, Berlusconi has always managed to emerge unscathed from the charges, starting with the most recent case, when in May 2012 he was acquitted by the ‘Mediatrade case’, in which he was accused of tax fraud and misappropriation.
In 2001 he was acquitted of the crime of falsifying balance sheets to the All Iberian society, belonging to the Fininvest group, in a case that dates back to the early of the year 90.
For the same case, and in relation to the illegal financing of the Socialist Party Bettino Craxi, Berlusconi was acquitted in 2005 after his Executive sentences changed over falsehood.
In 2001 also was acquitted of the crime of bribery to the Finance Guard (Italian financial police) not allowing to investigate the accounts of some of its businesses.
Another acquittal came in 2001 for the crime of falsification of balance in the acquisition of the film company ‘Medusa’ which at first had been sentenced to 16 months in prison in December 1997. Also the 2007 Supreme acquitted of the crime of corruption of judges to prevent the purchase of the public food company SME in 1985 by industrialist Carlo de Benedetti.
That same year, Spain was acquitted by the Telecinco case in which he was accused of falsifying balance sheets and violation of antitrust laws.
Among the most talked prescriptions highlights the Mills case, when after almost seven years of proceedings, in February 2012, pleaded the statute of limitations for corruption in the judicial act he was charged.
The Mills case, named after British lawyer David Mills, deemed the alleged payment of 600,000 dollars from Berlusconi’s lawyer in exchange for favorable testimony on two previous trials
