Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi
was indicted Thursday in the so-called Ruby Ter series of
probes.
The three-time former premier and media billionaire was
indicted for allegedly bribing pianist Danilo Mariani to lie
about the true nature of his bunga bunga sex parties.
In another of the cases, Turin prosecutors on Friday
requested Berlusconi's indictment in the third probe (hence Ruby
Ter) into the case of an underage nightclub dancer and
prostitute called Ruby.
In the Turin case, Berlusconi is under investigation for
allegedly bribing a 32-year-old nurse who became a model,
Roberta Bonasia, to remain silent about the parties.
Bonasia has therefore been charged with perjury, joining a
string of other young women around Italy but especially in
Milan.
In 2016 Milan prosecutors decided to send the various cases
of allegedly bribed witnesses to their local courts.
Earlier this year Milan prosecutors completed a new section
of the probe into allegations Berlusconi paid several young
women to keep mum on the real nature of his 'bunga bunga'
parties in the so-called Ruby III case.
The media magnate is suspected of paying almost 400,000 euros
to three women in Milan in October 2016, allegedly in exchange
for their silence.
In January Berlusconi was indicted for allegedly paying other
women to stay silent.
In the first trial linked to the case, Berlusconi was cleared
of charges of paying the woman known as Ruby the Heartstealer
for sex while she was a minor over lack of evidence that he knew
she was under 18 at the time.
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