The Milan Court Monday takes up a so-called Mediaset, the first of the lawsuits against Silvio Berlusconi will be resumed in the coming days after the partial invalidation of a judicial shield the president and the Italian prime minister is accused of alleged fraud tax. The first hearing of this new phase of the trial was suspended in April 2010 pending the Constitutional Court to rule on the law of legitimate impediment (last judicial shield Berlusconi), is scheduled for 0900 local time (08.00 GMT ) before the First Criminal Section of the Court of Milan.
This first hearing, chaired by Judge Edoardo D'Avossa, looks like a routine and it is expected to set the dates of the next view of the process in the absence of Italian Prime Minister, who almost certainly will not go to the Tribunal Despite having several events in Milan today. "We'll see.
We offer judges the opportunity to reach a shared calendar and therefore compatible with other processes because it has never seen a defendant who has four processes at a time," said Piero Longo, a Berlusconi's lawyers, told the newspaper today that includes Milan Corriere della Sera. " The dates set for hearings will be critical again in this process because, according to them, Berlusconi may qualify or not the so-called law of legitimate impediment, the rule that allows him and his ministers absent from the judgments if they have to attend official engagements.
This law had so far prevented the suspension of trials Berlusconi mechanism based on self-justification for the absence of the politician, but the Jan. 13 ruled that the Constitution should be the judge in each case to decide if it is not legitimate appearance of a chief executive. The Court of Milan shall judge the sale of broadcast rights for U.S.
movies by Mediaset (Berlusconi's audiovisual group that controls the Spanish television network Telecinco) on suspicion of artificially increasing the real price of the rights to evade and divert money to the treasury accounts abroad. In the coming days, Berlusconi also see how to resume before the Court of Milan on other pending proceedings: March 5 from scratch takes a preliminary hearing for the case Mediatrade (alleged misappropriation and tax fraud), and March 11 The trial Mills (alleged judicial corruption.) To this is added the Ruby trial in the case that also starts on the Court of Milan on April 6, in which the prime minister is accused of an alleged abuse of power and a crime of child prostitution. 
This first hearing, chaired by Judge Edoardo D'Avossa, looks like a routine and it is expected to set the dates of the next view of the process in the absence of Italian Prime Minister, who almost certainly will not go to the Tribunal Despite having several events in Milan today. "We'll see.
We offer judges the opportunity to reach a shared calendar and therefore compatible with other processes because it has never seen a defendant who has four processes at a time," said Piero Longo, a Berlusconi's lawyers, told the newspaper today that includes Milan Corriere della Sera. " The dates set for hearings will be critical again in this process because, according to them, Berlusconi may qualify or not the so-called law of legitimate impediment, the rule that allows him and his ministers absent from the judgments if they have to attend official engagements.
This law had so far prevented the suspension of trials Berlusconi mechanism based on self-justification for the absence of the politician, but the Jan. 13 ruled that the Constitution should be the judge in each case to decide if it is not legitimate appearance of a chief executive. The Court of Milan shall judge the sale of broadcast rights for U.S.
movies by Mediaset (Berlusconi's audiovisual group that controls the Spanish television network Telecinco) on suspicion of artificially increasing the real price of the rights to evade and divert money to the treasury accounts abroad. In the coming days, Berlusconi also see how to resume before the Court of Milan on other pending proceedings: March 5 from scratch takes a preliminary hearing for the case Mediatrade (alleged misappropriation and tax fraud), and March 11 The trial Mills (alleged judicial corruption.) To this is added the Ruby trial in the case that also starts on the Court of Milan on April 6, in which the prime minister is accused of an alleged abuse of power and a crime of child prostitution.
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