Here's an example of how Italy's Berlusconi ridicules
"The facts are no longer required by law as a crime." With this formula the judges of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Milan Silvio Berlusconi has been acquitted of the charge of false accounting last excerpt from proceeding with the case-born Sme. The incidents complained of former prime minister, in fact, dated back to late eighties. At first hearing, which lasted less than a quarter of an hour, the prosecutor had asked for the prescription, while the defense urged the court to a verdict of acquittal because the facts are no longer a crime. It was, in fact, precisely during Berlusconi's government that the false accounting had been declassified. One interpretation, the latter, which was upheld by the courts. The charges brought against former prime minister went back to the period from 1986 to 1989, and, therefore, would still have been covered by prescription. The judges, as stated, however, have decided to acquit Berlusconi because the fact is no longer provided as a crime, instead of declaring their prescription, as requested by prosecutor Ilda Boccassini. The process in which Berlusconi was accused of false accounting had been excluded from the main trunk of the SME trial, since the judges had invested the European Court to assess the adequacy of the Italian law on false accounting with EU directives. The European Court decided, however, not the merits of the laws in force in each country. "After six years was an award on the Court and the prosecutor had tried in every way to avoid addressing even the Court of Justice, "said the lawyer Nicolo Ghedini, along with fellow defender Gaetano Pecorella of Silvio Berlusconi. law decriminalizing false accounting was one of the first so-called" ad personam "laws" passed by the Berlusconi government approved. The In fact, the measure has become operational since January 2002 by a decree passed in record time by the then Justice Minister Roberto Castelli. "The cases of lesser gravity of false accounting - explained the Minister of Justice - have been decriminalized and will be penalized administration in line with the current tendency to limit the really serious cases criminal action. "
Last October, the Supreme Court definitely had closed another section of the proceedings against Silvio Berlusconi Sme absolve from allegations of corruption in the intricate story of the sale of the food industry to IRI Cir, the holding company of Carlo De Benedetti. The position of the leader of Forza Italy had been severed from the other six defendants, including Senator Cesare Previti and Judge Squires, following approval of the "Lodo Schifani," another of the so-called "ad personam" laws "(later declared unconstitutional), which introduced the immunity to the five highest offices of state.
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