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Prosecutors seek jail for Berlusconi

ITALIAN prosecutors asked a Milan court yesterday to sentence Silvio Berlusconi to five years in prison on charges of paying British lawyer David Mills a US$600,000 bribe to lie about the former prime minister's business interests.

But even if the media tycoon is found guilty, he is not likely to go to jail because the case, which dates back to 1997, will be overtaken in a few months by the statute of limitations.

Berlusconi, who was forced out of power in November as Italy faced a perilous debt crisis, faces three other trials on charges including tax fraud and paying for sex with an underage nightclub dancer.

Milan prosecutor Fabio De Pasquale told the court the bribery charge would be overtaken by the statute of limitations between early May and mid-July.

Mills, husband of former British minister Tessa Jowell, has already had a jail sentence for taking the bribe quashed under the statute.



 

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