Italy prosecutors accuse Berlusconi of bribing senator
May 9, 2013
Italian prosecutors on Thursday called for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to face another trial on charges of bribing a senator. The prosecutors accuse Berlusconi of having paid former senator Sergio De Gregorio ?3 million following the parliamentary election in 2006 to defect from th....... [more] 
Italy appeals court upholds Berlusconi tax fraud conviction
May 8, 2013
A Milan appeals court on Wednesday upheld the tax fraud conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, affirming his four-year sentence. He was convicted in October on charges that his media empire Mediaset purchased television rights for US movies through offshore companies and fal....... [more]
Italy high court confirmed Prodi as winner in disputed election
April 19, 2013
On April 19, 2006, the Italian Court of Cassation confirmed Romano Prodi as the winner over incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the country's disputed general election. The judges had to examine over 43,000 provisional ballots before certifying that Prodi, of the center-left coalition, had....... [more]
Italy pardons US colonel in CIA extraordinary rendition case
April 7, 2013
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on Friday pardoned US Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano of his conviction related to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) abduction and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Joseph Romano was security chief....... [more]
European countries commence legal action against Google over privacy policy
April 2, 2013
Six European countries, including France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy, on Tuesday agreed on joint legal action against Google over its privacy policy. The countries claim that 13 months ago when Google merged 60 separate privacy policies, including email, video, social-network....... [more]
Berlusconi sentenced to one year in prison for releasing private wiretaps
March 7, 2013
A Milan court on Wednesday sentenced former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to one year in prison for publicly releasing private wiretaps in 2005. In particular, Berlusconi's sentence stems from his conviction of publishing the transcript of a tapped phone conversation in Il Giornale, a na....... [more]
Italy court sentences former Fiat advisers
February 21, 2013
The Turin Court of Appeals in Italy on Thursday sentenced two former advisers to the Italian car company Fiat to one year and four months in prison for misleading the market in 2005 when the Agnelli family purchased the company. Franzo Grande Stevens, a former attorney for Fiat, and Gianluigi Gabett....... [more]
Europe rights court rejects Italy appeal on embryonic screening law
February 12, 2013
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Monday refused to reconsider an August ruling that Italy's ban on screening embryos for diseases before they are implanted in a womb violates parents' rights. The court found that this provision of Law 40 violated Article 8 of the European Convention on H....... [more]
Milan court convicts Italy spy chief for role in CIA extraordinary rendition
February 12, 2013
A Milan appeals court on Tuesday sentenced Niccolo Pollari, the former Italian spy chief, to 10 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping of a terror suspect as part of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program. Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Ha....... [more]
Italy court convicts 3 Americans for 2003 rendition kidnapping
February 2, 2013
The Milan Court of Appeals on Friday convicted three Americans for their roles in the 2003 rendition kidnapping of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Due to diplomatic immunity, all three men had been acquitted in the previous trial where the Milan court convicted 23 form....... [more]
Milan court sets Berlusconi sex trial verdict for after February elections
January 21, 2013
A Milan court on Monday set a timetable for hearings in the underage sex trial of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, setting the last session of the trial for early March, two weeks after the February 24?25 national elections. One of many proceedings against Berlusconi, the in t....... [more]
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