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Italy’s high court has issued a final ruling on the long running dispute between Silvio Berlusconi and the owner of La Repubblica, Carlo De Benedetti over the purchase of publishing house Mondadori in 1989. The Roman daily reports that the former premier will have to pay almost €500 million to De Benedetti’s CIR Group.
The court confirmed that Berlusconi’s lawyers had bribed a judge to have him declare invalid a preliminary agreement that would have assigned control of Mondadori to De Benedetti. Berlusconi’s daughter Marina, who is the current head of the Fininvest group controlled by the Berlusconi family, is considering an appeal to the European court of justice.
Yet more legal trouble is looming for Berlusconi: the committee, which will decide on his expulsion from the Senate in the wake of his conviction for tax fraud, has rejected a request to delay its decision and is expected to vote this afternoon.
