(ANSA) - Rome, February 14 - Marcello Dell'Utri, a former close aide of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi serving seven years for external complicity in mafia association, was taken from jail to hospital for medical tests Wednesday. The former Senator was taken from Rome's Rebibbia Prison to the Italian capital's Campus Biomedico. Dell'Utri remains in detention and is under guard at the hospital.
The former aide of billionaire media magnate Berlusconi is being treated for prostate cancer, diabetes and heart problems.
A detention review board recently rejected Dell'Utri's bid to be released on health grounds.
Dell'Utri taken to hospital for tests
Former Berlusconi aide serving 7 yrs for mafia ties