Italian high court upholds Berlusconi's sentence in tax fraud case

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Source: CNN.com

Rome (CNN) -- Italy's high court has upheld a prison sentence for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a tax fraud case.

The court Thursday said it supported a lower court's four-year prison sentence for Berlusconi.

Three years of that sentence are covered in an amnesty aimed at cutting down on prison overcrowding, effectively reducing Berlusconi's sentence to one year.

But it's unlikely he'll spend time behind bars, because of his age and the shortness of the sentence.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/01/world/europe/italy-berlusconi/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[MADem]

1. So, he's convicted but he gets away with it, nonetheless.

I really dislike that guy.

[cosmicone]

2. He should be at the Hague facing war crimes

along with Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, Aznar, Howard and Blair.

[Eugene]

3. Italy ex-PM Berlusconi in angry tirade at jail ruling

Source: BBC

Italy ex-PM Berlusconi in angry tirade at jail ruling

Italy's former PM Silvio Berlusconi has broadcast an angry video message after his prison sentence for tax fraud was upheld by the country's highest court.

Berlusconi said he was the innocent victim of "an incredible series of accusations and trials that had nothing to do with reality"

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In an emotional nine-minute video, Berlusconi denounced the decision as "based on nothing, and which deprives me of my freedom and political rights".

"No-one can understand the veritable violence which has been reserved for me through a series of charges and trials that had no basis in reality," he said.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23544129