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Berlusconi at one of the numerous EU summits he attended as prime minister (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Italian court upholds Berlusconi jail sentence

An Italian court Thursday (1 August) upheld former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's prison sentence marking the first definitive conviction for the 76-year old politician in over 20 trials spanning almost two decades.

The court of cassation, Italy's highest court and against which Berlusconi cannot appeal, decided after a three-day hearing to uphold a prison term for tax fraud.

The original sentence of four years was handed out by two lower courts last year and automatically com...

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Berlusconi at one of the numerous EU summits he attended as prime minister (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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