Milan prosecutors on Thursday
requested that ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi and 30 others be
sent to trial over allegations of witness corrupting.
The request centres on witnesses in the case regarding
allegations that Berlusconi paid for sex with a then-underage
prostitute called Ruby, a Moroccan whose real name is Karima El
Mahroug, during 'Bunga Bunga' parties at his home near Milan.
The media magnate was eventually cleared of those charges
on the grounds that there was no proof he knew Ruby was
underage.
But it its explanation of the ruling, the supreme court
said that there was no doubt that paid acts of a sexual nature
took place at the gatherings.
El Mahroug is among several women facing an indictment if
a preliminary hearings judge upholds the prosecutors request in
the so-called 'Ruby Ter' (Ruby Three) case.
They are accused of taking bribes to keep mum about the
sex parties in the original trial and the so-called 'Ruby Bis'
(Ruby Two) one against three people who allegedly procured the
prostitutes.
In return for huge sums, former teen runaway Ruby
allegedly falsely denied having sex with the media magnate.
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