TV 'judge' suspended from programme

(ANSA) - Catania, January 24 - An attorney who features as a TV judge on the popular Mediaset programme Forum was suspended from the show "temporarily and as a precaution" by its producers on Thursday. An investigating judge said the attorney, Francesco Foti, was recorded in a wiretapped phone conversation with an attorney who was arrested last week in connection with a bankruptcy probe by the Catania prosecutor's office.
    The attorney was speaking about how to set up a company in Croatia for the purposes of tax evasion and Foti allegedly said he would put the attorney in contact with a client of his.
    Foti denied the depiction of the wiretapped conversation and said he was "talking about a case that I was working on".