The deputy prosecutor of Milan Tiziana Siciliano and the prosecutor Luca Gaglio have asked for a sentence of 6 years in prison for Silvio Berlusconi , accused of corruption in judicial acts in the trial on the Ruby ter case.
The prosecutor also asked to confiscate a sum of 10.8 million euros from the leader of Forza Italia as the "price of corruption".
OTHER REQUESTS
In the final indictment of the trial, the prosecutors asked for 28 sentences. Among this Maria Rosaria Rossi , senator and former loyalist of the Cav, one year and 4 months for perjury; same accusation for Carlo Rossella , two years were asked for the journalist; still, asked for sentences of up to five years for twenty girls guests of the evenings of Arcore whose silence would have been bought by the former prime minister.
Instead, he asked for 6 and a half years for Luca Risso , Ruby's ex-boyfriend, and 5 years of imprisonment for Ruby herself, Karima El Mahroug , accused of perjury and corruption in judicial acts. Ruby was also asked for a 5 million euro confiscation, for her ex for 3 million.
RUBY'S CRAZY EXPENSES
"The hundreds of thousands of euros that Karima spent were delivered to her, through her lawyer Luca Giuliante, by Berlusconi; she could not spend more than that, more than that was just throwing money out the window. She suffered in that period of a real compulsion to spend ", said Milan prosecutor Luca Gaglio in his indictment.
The prosecutor recalled many of the evidence already filed on Ruby's spending rate funded by the former premier, including " taxis from Genoa to Milan, restaurants and luxury hotels , where he also spent 1,400 euros in one night, more expensive champagne even with fluorescent lettering ".
In that period Karima El Mahroug, according to the prosecutor, "is like the people who win the lottery and first spend, spend, then comes depression and suicide risk is also high".
Gaglio recalled that the young Moroccan, who supported herself even before meeting the Knight "by being a prostitute", paid "always in cash, with 500 euro banknotes" and paid for an entire trip to the Maldives "in cash" . Among the evidence of the alleged corruption is the diary that was confiscated in which she wrote that she was to receive " 4.5 million from B. ".
And then again the now well-known letter that would have been written by Risso and sent to the leader of Forza Italia which began with "Dear President" and in which he wrote: "you asked us to leave so as not to let you testify". Letter, continued the Prosecutor, "where there is the very summarized story of the corruption of Karima". And again: "There are files, to which Risso refers, from which emerges both the corruptive promise and the recycling role of Risso".
THE OLGETTINE
"These girls were assured that they would be okay both in terms of income, with a monthly fee of 2,500 euros , and for a roof, a house, accommodation", said the prosecutor about the so-called " olgettine ", former guests of the Arcore evenings according to the Prosecutor's Office paid to lie.
There are elements and evidence, explained the prosecutor, "which show that already since 2011", before the young women went to testify in the courtroom, " there was a corruptive agreement " between the former prime minister and the girls "aimed at obtaining false testimonies of all the witnesses of Ruby 1 and 2 ". The young women were "also paid to give interviews to the media no different from those in court".
THE DEFENCE
The defensive thesis is that the girls had been compensated for their compromised reputation after the scandal of the evenings at Villa San Martino.
"I am not surprised, this is a process where the Public Prosecutor's Office has been continuing with this accusatory approach for years and we have solid arguments to arrive at acquittal, the crime does not exist, everything that has been contested is deniable", said the lawyer Federico Cecconi, Berlusconi's lawyer. The sentence will arrive no earlier than September .
(Unioneonline / L)
