Ruby, Berlusconi still positive: postponement of the Milan trial. The defense also asks for a postponement in Siena

Silvio Berlusconi is still positive for coronavirus and for health reasons the request for legitimate impediment presented by the defense. By decision of the judges of criminal section VII, the hearing in the Lombard capital is postponed to next October 19. The former prime minister’s lawyers also asked that the October 1 hearing be postponed to the Siena Court. The sentence was scheduled for that date.

Milan – The request for a legitimate impediment had been filed in recent days by the lawyer Federico Cecconi. And it is linked to the persistence of the physical-clinical conditions of the FI leader, or to waiting for negative swabs. The former prime minister was discharged on September 14 after 11 nights of hospitalization. He had been hospitalized the night of September 3 because he was positive for Covid-19 and with a bilateral pneumonia. Obviously, waiting for negative swabs, it was necessary to arrange a non-short delay and then re-evaluate the conditions at the next hearing. The decision was made by the college chaired by Marco Tremolada. The trial sees Berlusconi and 28 other defendants, including many ‘Olgettines’ who allegedly gave false testimony in the two trials on the Ruby case in exchange for money and other benefits, according to the indictment, from the former prime minister. The process is in the witness investigation phase and Numerous summoned texts have already been heard in recent months to be testified by the deputy prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano and by the prosecutor Luca Gaglio. Among the witnesses who have yet to testify at the trial is also Giuseppe Spinelli, trusted accountant of the former prime minister and, according to the investigations, in charge of the payments in exchange for his silence in the afternoons of Arcore.

Siena – The Siena Prosecutor, with the prosecutor Valentina Magnini, at the hearing on February 13 I had asked for 4 years and 2 months for corruption in judicial acts. According to the indictment, the former prime minister and leader of Forza Italia would have paid the Sienese pianist Danilo mariani, who was performing at his villa in Arcore, to induce him to give false testimony about the Olgettine case. The prosecutor asked for 4 years and 6 months for Mariani for the crime of perjury. Berlusconi’s defenders, lawyers Federico Cecconi and Enrico De Martino, have always contested the reconstruction of the indictment. The Siena trial originated from a file transmitted by the Court of Milan to that of the city of Palio in 2017 for territorial jurisdiction. For the Milanese prosecutors, in fact, in Siena, the payment that Berlusconi made to Danilo Mariani, pianist of the Arcore parties, would have been completed to induce him to give sweetened testimony in the evenings in Villa San Martino at the Ruby Gate trials. . According to the indictment, the transfers made by Berlusconi to Mariani as ‘expense reimbursements’, approximately 170 thousand euros in three years from 2011 to 2013, in reality they would have been payments to induce the Arcore pianist to make false testimonies about the case of the so-called olgettine.

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