Silvio Berlusconi, acquitted of buying the silence of the women who attended his ‘bunga-bunga’ parties

The Court of Milan has acquitted this Wednesday the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in which case he was trying to clarify whether he bribed witnesses, especially women, so that they would not reveal what happened in their controversial parties bunga-bunga in 2010.

The 86-year-old magnate was accused of a crime of corruption for allegedly having paid for the silence of those who attended his parties, 28 of whom were charged in this legal proceeding for perjury and who have also been acquitted. Last May, the Prosecutor’s Office requested six years in jail for Berlusconi as well as the seizure of almost 11 million euros.

The judge considers that “the fact does not subsist”, that is, that the accusation has not been proven against Berlusconi and about twenty women who attended those parties, among them the Moroccan Karima El Mahroug, alias Rubyorigin of the scandal.

[Muere presuntamente envenenada una testigo del ‘caso Ruby’ contra Berlusconi]

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This is not the first time that Berlusconi has been acquitted of a trial related to his private parties. In October 2021, the judge did not see proven that bribing the pianist Danilo Mariani that he participated in his parties with young women so that he would not testify against him at trial.

The trial is part of the case Rubynickname of the young Moroccan Karima el Mahrougwith whom the politician had sexual relations when she was a minor and in the that it is about clarifying if the tycoon bribed the witnesses of other processes so they lied about what happened at their parties.

of those “elegant dinners”as Berlusconi called them, a trial arose for the crimes of abuse of power and incitement to prostitution of minors in which it came to be sentenced to 7 years and disqualified. In 2015, Berlusconi was acquitted.

Later, he faced the trial known as ruby encorein which some of his collaborators were sentenced in the second degree: the journalist Emilio Fedethe representative of artists Lele Mora and the politician and actress Nicole Minettifor inducing prostitution and pimping.

The main case, the one that concluded today, except for resources from the Prosecutor’s Office, is being investigated in Milan, but the case had to be broken down due to a matter of jurisdiction in different branches in Turin, Pescara, Treviso, Monza and Siena, resulting in a trickle of sentences.

The Milan Prosecutor’s Office maintained in this process that the then Prime Minister paid thousands of euros a month to many of the women who attended his parties in his mansion in Arcore and in his then Roman residence, Palacio Grazioni, in the heart of the city.