A Rome court on Thursday found
Senator Denis Verdini, a former top aide of ex-premier Silvio
Berlusconi, guilty of corruption in contracts for the
construction of a military academy in Florence and gave him a
suspended two-year prison term.
Angelo Balducci, former head of Italy's Superior Council
of Public Works, Fabio De Santis, former public works
commissioner in Tuscany, businessman Francesco Maria De Vito
Piscicelli and real estate developer Riccardo Fusi had already
received definitive convictions in relation to the case.
Verdini, whose small Liberal Popular Alliance -
Autonomies (ALA) group has recently given essential backing to
Premier Matteo Renzi's government for key reforms, was found to
have facilitated Fusi in his affairs and orchestrated De Santis'
appointment as public works commissioner.
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