Former premier Silvio Berlusconi
was paying 10 "new young women" sums totaling 2,500 euros a
month, according to reports from investigators.
Accountant Giuseppe Spinelli was in charge of the payments
to the women who reportedly attended parties at the three-time
premier's home and who are not officially under investigation,
according to the documents released on Thursday.
Along with the new women listed as receiving monthly
payments by Spinelli, a trusted manager of Berlusconi, was also
ex-Lombardy regional councilor Nicole Minetti of former
Berlusconi's now-defunct center-right People of Freedom (PdL)
party, who was listed as receiving 15,000 euros a month.
Minetti, the ex-premier's former dental hygienist, was
sentenced to three years in jail by an appeals court in Milan
last November for procuring prostitutes for Berlusconi's sex
parties at his private residence in Arcore, near Milan.
Judicial sources in a probe into alleged perjury by
so-called 'bunga bunga' witnesses said earlier this month that
Berlusconi gave over two million euros from 2010 to early 2014
to another group of young women who attended his parties.
These sums did not include money given to an alleged
underage prostitute known as Ruby the Heartstealer, whose real
name is Karima El Mahroug, who attended the sex parties.
Investigators have said Berlusconi is still paying Ruby and
other alleged prostitutes in exchange for their silence about
the real nature of his bunga bunga sex parties.
The ex-premier is also alleged to have paid for an
expensive birthday party for the baby daughter of Ruby, who
prosecutors believe worked as an underage prostitute when she
attended the parties in 2010.
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