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The English company lawyer David Mills has been sentenced to have accepted a tangent to testify the falsehood in two judicial processes.

Mills seems to have received a profit of 600.000$ (350.000£ about) from the President of the Italian Council Silvio Berlusconi. The court of Milan has sentenced Mills to 4 years and 6 months. He says to be innocent and that will appeal. Lui dice di essere innocente e che farà ricorso in appello.

The judicial case regards two processes of 1997 and of 1998 that involve Berlusconi. In short, it is supported that Mills should have been paid to be silent on the offshore companies of the President of the Council, so that Berlusconi could avoid paying the taxes. Mills was an expert witness in fiscal field and it is thought that his testimony should have held Berlusconi outside at the troubles. Mills era un testimone esperto in ambito fiscale e si pensa che la sua testimonianza abbia tenuto Berlusconi fuori dai guai.

It is presumed that Mills has used the money received to pay the loan of the house of London that it was dividing with Tessa Jowell, English minister by the Olympic games. A parliamentary inquiry verified that the Jowell was extraneous by any involvement. The couple now is separate. La coppia ora è separata.

The accusation in his last process has tried to describe the whole case like dominated at power and money. The power for Silvio Berlusconi. The money for David Mills. I soldi per David Mills.

One asks us if Mills will go really to prison and in which way this case could involve the President of the Italian Council. Probably, no it is the answer to the first question. Mills has already said to the BBC that it intends to appeal and that it has solid reasons for doing it. It has very much become affected with rabies for as the event has concluded and she thinks to be a victim of political manoeuvres. Mills ha già detto alla BBC che intende fare ricorso in appello e che ha solide ragioni per farlo. E’ molto arrabbiato per come si è conclusa la vicenda e pensa di essere vittima di manovre politiche.

Under the glacial appealed any Italian legal system it might ask one, two, three or more years. This might involve the entrance in prescription, which intervenes drastically after seven years and a half.

The law about the immunity

Then it might win the resort, but if also not riusciusse, the accusation will be able not to have simply any more time at disposal to sentence it. However it goes, it will remain free.

For one like David Mills to win the appealed one would be more than favourable, because it would let him demonstrate not only the own innocence, but also recover the reputation.

As far as Berlusconi regards, it has a pass done appended to remain outside at the prison, at least for now. The same administration has approved last year, in controversial way, a law about the immunity with the processes for he and a handful of other ministers. Therefore it cannot have touched, until it is to the power. The accusations are still hung, you do not cancel. Perciò non può essere toccato, finché è al potere. Tuttavia le accuse sono sospese, non cancellate.

Expert in matter

Still even if they be were persecuting it again when he finishes the mandate, Berlusconi has well-known precedents in as for ending all the procedures of appealed, in accordance with the law Italian.

Berlusconi persists on proclaiming the own innocence and denies having paid Mills. And it is not certainly new to the Italian legal system: it is considered that it has been involved in about 2500 audiences during his career. In some judicial cases he has been also declared a culprit. The accusations in past have regarded corruption and falsehood in budget. si stima sia stato coinvolto in circa 2500 udienze durante la sua carriera. In alcuni casi giudiziari è stato anche dichiarato colpevole. Le accuse in passato hanno riguardato corruzione e falso in bilancio.

Nevertheless it has never been in prison to have won the appealed one, or because absolved, or for period of validity of the terms.
In order that an idea give you of as the Italians see their President of the Council and his judicial events, in the day in which the verdict has been pronounced on Mills, there was only a handful of telecameras in the classroom of Milan to follow the fact. It was simply not worthy fact of being announced.

The forgiveness of the electors

You imagine the same situation in other countries, where the head of a Government is involved in a huge fraud for corruption. Us it might not even derive outside from the court because of the microphones and objectives of the telecameras.

But not in Italy. Here the majority of the Italians is silently reviewed to see their head moving to the borders of the legality; a storm each so much shows only that it is human. It is even a characteristic of his eccentric personality. una bufera ogni tanto mostra solo che è umano. È persino una caratteristica della sua personalità eccentrica.

It seems that the Italians are ready to forgive Berlusconi, until Italy holds faraway at the rocks the great ship. Certainly this does not keep them back voting for it, as it has been tried by the overwhelming electoral success on the political elections of last year.

But there might be an unexpected turning for Berlusconi. A big movement exists to eliminate his new law about the immunity. If those who support it will convince the court of property a sufficient number – and I legitimise – of signatures, they might impose a referendum. This might return more vulnerable Berlusconi. Se coloro che lo appoggiano convinceranno il tribunale di avere un numero sufficiente – e legittimo – di firme, potrebbero imporre un referendum. Ciò potrebbe rendere Berlusconi più vulnerabile.

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