Berlusconi 'paid prostitute' to go to erotic parties
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January 28, 2011, Friday
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A PARLIAMENTARY committee in Italy examined 200 more pages of documents yesterday assembled by prosecutors investigating Premier Silvio Berlusconi on suspicion that he paid for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl.
The documents include references to another minor, a Brazilian, who allegedly received jewels and other gifts in exchange for her participation at parties at a Berlusconi villa, according to Italian news reports.
The revelations that another minor might have been at some of Berlusconi's parties widens the probe and potentially adds to the 74-year-old leader's woes. Berlusconi has denied ever paying for sex.
Milan prosecutors sent the additional documentation from their investigation to the parliamentary committee to back up their request to search some of Berlusconi's properties. The prosecutors had already provided almost 400 pages of documents and alleged evidence against Berlusconi last week.
In addition to being premier, Berlusconi is a member of the lower house of parliament. The house's members enjoy parliamentary i-mmunity from arrest or searches in criminal probes, unless the committee decides otherwise on a case-by-case basis.
The new documents reportedly include wiretaps of conversations between the young women who attended Berlusconi's parties, alleged evidence of payments to them and reports from police searches conducted earlier this month at some of the women's homes.
The most potentially dangerous revelations involve the Brazilian woman. The documents list necklaces, bracelets, pendants and other jewels she allegedly received "in -exchange for her repeated participation at parties at Berlusconi's villas," according to excerpts of the documents cited by LaPresse news agency. The materials were seized during a January 14 search at the woman's home.
The documents also say the woman was at a Berlusconi villa on November 22, 2009, according to LaPresse. The ANSA news agency said the woman is known to -investigators to be a prostitute and that she also was at Berlusconi's villa in Arcore, near Milan, on December 13, 2009.
The documents include references to another minor, a Brazilian, who allegedly received jewels and other gifts in exchange for her participation at parties at a Berlusconi villa, according to Italian news reports.
The revelations that another minor might have been at some of Berlusconi's parties widens the probe and potentially adds to the 74-year-old leader's woes. Berlusconi has denied ever paying for sex.
Milan prosecutors sent the additional documentation from their investigation to the parliamentary committee to back up their request to search some of Berlusconi's properties. The prosecutors had already provided almost 400 pages of documents and alleged evidence against Berlusconi last week.
In addition to being premier, Berlusconi is a member of the lower house of parliament. The house's members enjoy parliamentary i-mmunity from arrest or searches in criminal probes, unless the committee decides otherwise on a case-by-case basis.
The new documents reportedly include wiretaps of conversations between the young women who attended Berlusconi's parties, alleged evidence of payments to them and reports from police searches conducted earlier this month at some of the women's homes.
The most potentially dangerous revelations involve the Brazilian woman. The documents list necklaces, bracelets, pendants and other jewels she allegedly received "in -exchange for her repeated participation at parties at Berlusconi's villas," according to excerpts of the documents cited by LaPresse news agency. The materials were seized during a January 14 search at the woman's home.
The documents also say the woman was at a Berlusconi villa on November 22, 2009, according to LaPresse. The ANSA news agency said the woman is known to -investigators to be a prostitute and that she also was at Berlusconi's villa in Arcore, near Milan, on December 13, 2009.
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