Italy ex-PM Berlusconi to do community service - court
Silvio Berlusconi has been fighting court battles for years
Former
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi must perform a year's
community service in a home for the elderly, a Milan court has ruled.
The sentence followed his conviction last year for tax fraud
in connection with the purchase of TV rights by his firm, Mediaset, in
the 1990s. Berlusconi's lawyers said they were "satisfied" that the ruling would allow him to remain politically active.
The 77-year-old billionaire has been embroiled in a string of court cases.
He was spared prison in the Mediaset case because the Italian legal system is lenient to the over-70s.
Culled from BBC
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