Maximum term asked for Formigoni

(ANSA) - Rome, February 21 - The prosecutor at Italy's highest court of appeal, the supreme Court of Cassation, on Thursday asked for a term of seven and a half years, the maximum, to be upheld against former Lombardy governor Roberto Formigoni in a corruption case involving Milan's Maugeri private clinic and the northern city's San Raffaele Hospital.
    "There was an imposing corruptive bartering," said Prosecutor General Luigi Birritteri.
    The maxium term should be upheld, he said, "considering (Formigoni's) role and the mass of corruption, which leave it hard to imagine an affair of a similar gravity".