A Milan prosecutor on Tuesday
asked a seized assets board to confiscate paparazzi king
Fabrizio Corona's home but give him back 1.8 million euros.
The money is part of 2.6 million seized from the former VIP
photographer, who has been through a series of trials for
blackmailing VIPs.
The prosecutor said the money should be returned to Corona
because he has "partially paid his taxes".
The prosecutor did not ask fo special surveillance measures
to be tightened.
Last June Corona was given a one-year jail term by a Milan
court for a case concerning around 2.6 million euros in cash
found hidden in a ceiling and in safety deposit boxes in
Austria.
Corona, a controversial figure, banged his fists on the table
in celebration and shouted "justice is done" when the sentence
was read out.
Prosecutors had asked for a five-year term, but Corona was
acquitted of two charges - false registration of assets and
violation of asset regulations - and convicted only of
fraudulent tax evasion.
Corona's assistant, Francesca Persi, was given a three-month
term.
Corona was arrested in October while doing social work to
serve the final part of a previous jail term for the fraudulent
bankruptcy of his agency and for blackmailing VIPs with
compromising photographs.
In 2013, the photographer was sentenced to roughly five
years in prison.
The June ruling came just days after finance police seized a
Milan apartment worth approximately 2.5 million euros
investigators believe Corona bought through a dummy purchaser -
possibly his co-defendant in the trial, Persi - with financial
resources drained from his once high-flying photography agency.
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