(ANSA) Bari, March 23 - Businessman Gianpaolo Tarantini
spent as much as 22,000 euros flying young women to attend
former premier Silvio Berlusconi's parties, a court heard
Monday.
The money covered only the expenses of flights and hotels
for the women, many of whom were sex workers, to attend the
revelry organised for the elderly media magnate and his guests,
Roberto Soligo, a finance guard (tax police) officer, told the
trial of Tarantini on charges of pimping under way at the Bari
Tribunal.
The figures referred to 14 parties held between August 2008
and May 2009 but don't include fees to the girls paid as 'tokens
of presence' or payments for sex.
Also not included were expenses chalked up by Tarantini
himself for accommodation and meals in Rome, Milan and Sardinia.
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