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| Subject: Italian PM will face corruption trial Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:12 pm | |
| A CORRUPTION trial against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills will go ahead next month despite the Italian leader's attempts to have it stopped by accusing the court of bias, the judge said yesterday.
Berlusconi, 71, is charged with paying Mills $US600,000 in 1997, from alleged "secret funds" held by his media empire Mediaset, to withhold incriminating details of his business dealings. Both of them deny any wrongdoing.
The Prime Minister's lawyers asked last week to have the presiding Milan judge, Nicoletta Gandus, removed. Berlusconi said the court was "politicised and has rolled over and accepted the prosecution's arguments".
Ms Gandus said yesterday: "The removal request does not stop the hearings from going ahead." The next hearing is due on July 7.
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