Berlusconi faces five-year jail term

ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi's legal worries compounded on Wednesday when prosecutors requested a five-year jail sentence for your Italo media mogul and former premier on charges of bribing British lawyer David Mills to lie about business practices at his Mediaset broadcaster. Berlusconi is billed with needing to pay Mills, who's an expert in offshore tax havens, a $600,000 bribe for delivering false testimony by 50 percent tests, in 1997 and 1998, a great alleged arrange for Mediaset to evade taxes relevant to Hollywood movie rights' deals. Mills was billed having a Milan court this past year and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail. But an appeals court released his corruption situation this season due to the statute of limitations. The statute of limitations may also be vulnerable to kick-looking for Berlusconi in this particular trial. But a guilty verdict will be a significant blow to his prestige. "You can be positive, beyond question, the defendant is guilty," mentioned da Fabio P Pasquale, who accused Berlusconi's defence to become entirely "based on false documents." Both Berlusconi and Mills deny the expense. Berlusconi's lawyers, who claim legal court is politically biased, have requested the problem be gone after another jurisdiction. A ruling on that's expected Feb. 18. Berlusconi also faces other ongoing tests on separate tax fraud charges in addition to needing to purchase sex by getting an underage prostitute. A completely new indictment from captured including wiretaps and leaked information to allegedly damage a political opponent is due to continue trial on March 15. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com