Trade senators, asked five years to the former prime minister … – The Republic

Berlusconi Sentenced for trading senators. The Naples public prosecutor asks five years imprisonment for the former prime minister for the crime of corruption. The request was formalized by the prosecutor Vincenzo Piscitelli after the indictment before the panel presided by Judge Serena Corleto. Valter Lavitola, the prosecutor asked for four years and four months.

Mr Berlusconi is accused of paying between 2006 and 2008 through Valter Lavitola former Senator Sergio De Gregorio, who was elected with Italy of Values, then went through the center, with the aim of sabotaging the Prodi government in the context of the so-called “Operation Freedom”. Operation, said the pm Piscitelli, represented in the reconstruction of the prosecution a “colossal financial investment aimed at compelling the only result that interested the man Berlusconi, obsessed only by the desire to send home Prodi and take its place.”

The first to speak was the prosecutor Alessandro Milita, which supported the prosecution in the trial with the prosecutor Henry John Woodcock and Vincenzo Piscitelli Fabrizio Vanorio. “We are in the presence of one of the worst cases that can be envisaged. A story that will remain in the history books and will serve as a warning for the future Here we have economic power that people buy to take advantage of its functions and direct its vote.” De Gregorio has admitted its responsibility and has bargained it. But the process, stressed the Milita pm, is not only built on the statements by the former senator.

At the opening of the hearing, lawyers Niccolo Ghedini and Michele Cerabona, Berlusconi’s lawyers, have filed to the court Memory signed by former prime minister addressed the Chamber of Deputies. With the letter, Berlusconi asked the Parliament to declare unquestionable, because covered by parliamentary immunity, the conduct at the heart of the process. Forza Italy, in this judgment as civilly liable, were present in the courtroom lawyers Franco Coppi and Bruno La Rosa. The verdict is scheduled for 8 July.

In the evening, the replica of Berlusconi: “A request that the public prosecutor of Naples, which conflicts with the reality and with all the findings of the proceedings, in line with the tradition of the worst political processes. I am confident that the Court should quickly establish the truth of the facts and pronounce a judgment of acquittal totally “.

” All the witnesses and all the documentary evidence showed the total inconsistency of the assumption prosecution. The same De Gregorio had to admit that his adherence to the center was a homecoming and that his political actions were

released from alleged mendations of money, however, lack in the whole of each test. What the prosecutor’s office Napoli despite everything not consider asking for a sentence at the maximum sentence is really absurd. We trust that the Court should fulfill the broad formula with President Berlusconi from this incredible accusation “. The state attorneys Coppi, Cerabona, Larosa and Ghedini.

Arguments:

process Berlusconi

Starring:

Silvio Berlusconi

Sergio De Gregorio

Valter Lavitola