A long-running and angry clash
within the Milan prosecutors' office continued on Friday when
chief prosecutor Edmondo Bruti Liberati stripped Alfredo Robledo
of his brief for corruption cases.
Liberati shifted Robledo to the office in charge of
criminal probes.
The pair have been at odds for months after Robledo
filed a formal complaint to Italian judiciary's self-governing
body, the CSM, against Bruti Liberati over several high-profile
cases.
These include the case against Silvio Berlusconi for
allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abusing
his office to cover up the affair - charges that the ex-premier
was cleared of after an appeals court overturned a conviction at
the first-instance trial.
Robledo argued that Bruti Liberati's decision to hand the
Berlusconi sex case to anti-Mafia prosecutor Ilda Boccassini was
illegitimate.
Bruti Liberati has hit back at Robledo, saying he
interfered in a case regarding alleged corruption in Milan Expo
2015 contracts and put the investigation in peril.
Supreme court prosecutors are looking into the clash
between the two.
On Friday sources close to Robledo said he was "serene" and
would respond to the transfer by reporting to the CSM.
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