70809486 Berlusconi suspected of trying to deceive investigators
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was suspected that made businessman Giampaolo Tarantino (Giampaolo Tarantini) to give false testimony of the investigation of pimping. Writes about this on Tuesday, September 27, agency ANSA. In the process, Tarantino was accused of pimping in the organization of private parties at the home of the Prime Minister. In particular, according to investigators, he spent about 30 thousand euros for prostitutes, which supplied the holidays Berlusconi in. Unlike prostitution, which is legal in Italy, pimping is illegal to. According to the most premiere, he did not know what it was about prostitutes, as Tarantino presented him as a girl of his friends. As it turned out, the Prime Minister did know that the "friends " led him to Tarantino. This implies, in particular, from the records of telephone calls Berlusconi. Tarantino, according to Agence France-Presse, demanded that the policy of a total of 850,000 euros in exchange for that promise to take the blame. This eliminates the need to attach to the case records of negotiations, which could tarnish the image of Berlusconi, who in their '74 glory irresistible proud man. In the end, Tarantino has been accused of blackmail and taken into custody on September 1. Now the role of Berlusconi in the process may have changed dramatically: from a victim of extortion, he could be charged with new business. Earlier, the Italian prime minister has been accused of violating the law, in particular, of bribery, pressure on the media and sexual crimes. Another hearing on any of these processes, the famous "Case of Ruby ", scheduled for October 3.
