Thursday, May 21, 2009 "He lied to save Berlusconi." That is why the British lawyer David Mills was sentenced in Milan to four years and six months by judges in Milan. The lawyer, convicted of corruption in judicial acts acted "by false witness" to allow Berlusconi and Fininvest impunity from charges, or at least maintain the huge profits'. It is this one of the steps of the reasons (read the complete document), 400 pages, the sentence with which the court in Milan has prompted the condemnation of British law.
Mills, wrote the judges in the grounds, "has certainly acted on false testimony from one side to allow Silvio Berlusconi and Fininvest group to the impunity of the charges, or at least maintain the huge profits made through the completion of the corporate and financial transactions carried out illegal up to that point, he simultaneously pursued his other substantial economic benefit " . I remember Milanese judges considered that in addition to 600 thousand dollars "the price of corruption," Mills in 1996 were collected directly by Berlusconi declared at least 45 thousand pounds to the British tax authorities. "Huge sums of money, foreign to his professional fees" that the lawyer received from Berlusconi.
In practice, judges still write, "Mills's conduct was dictated by the need to distance the person of Silvio Berlusconi by offshore companies to evade taxation and anti-concentration rules, while also allowing, thus, retention of ownership of huge profits illegally earned abroad, the destination of some of the same Piersilvio and Marina Berlusconi.
In essence, the judges, "the heart of the reluctance of Mills, in each of his testimony, is that he had brought only generically to Fininvest, and not to the person Silvio Berlusconi's ownership of offshore companies, thus favoring the defendant in those proceedings. "
The condemnation of the British lawyer had arrived in February of this year. At the conclusion of an investigation that drew in the premier dance and that he had seen a first admission of guilt of Mills. The office in July 2004 had told the PM that he had received 600 thousand dollars from Fininvest group to say the false trials where Berlusconi was involved: the bribes to the Guardia di Finanza and the All Iberian.
Then, in January 2009, a retraction and an attempt to exonerate the Prime Minister (whose position has been removed following the adoption of the "Lodo Alfano" that guarantees the imine to the high offices of State ). A turning point that allowed the premier to avoid referral trial for corruption, asked to give judges in 2006.
Opposition to attack the Knight after the reason for the condemnation of the lawyer Mills. Dario Franceschini claims that the Prime Minister waives immunity. Inquiry lawyer returned to the sender (and the Parliamentary Assembly of the PDL) Nicolò Ghedini: "If you give up all'ingovernabilità condemn the country." But then the same Silvio Berlusconi to take the floor. Announcing his next speech in Parliament on the issue. Warning: "These judges will not prosecute me." And harshly attacking the press.
The words of the Prime Minister. "This morning I announced my going to make a speech in Parliament on the ruling and Mills, once I get time, I will. At that time I will finally be what I think about some of the judiciary ", said Berlusconi, speaking at a press conference in L'Aquila. He adds that it is" a ruling outrageous and contrary to reality, will be acquitted on appeal. This opposition defeat in terms of concrete things stick to things such as was done in the past so shameful about the tissues that have never existed. "
The attack on the press. In particular, the target of Berlusconi are the envoys of the Republic, the Unit, the Sole 24 Ore: "It 's the press Italian who should be ashamed "because publishing" untrue news hurts the country. "And in particular, in the famous ten questions on the case Noemi-tissue that has placed our newspaper's" do not answer to the Republic, if he changes his attitude we could reach an agreement, but now I do not answer. I've already answered when I said I was sick I told you that you were sick with envy and personal hatred of politics. The fully reconfirmed. "And again:" Do not think of ridiculous when you argue that in Italy there is no freedom of the press? If you want to play jokes, but outside some statements are taken as true. This is bad for the country. "
Seem to see an old movie aired a few years ago .. was October 19, 2005 in Baghdad and we
Saddam, the way the process .. "I'm the president, who are you?"
BAGHDAD - The trial of the century opens and is immediately updated in late November for lack of witnesses. Terrified of having to testify against Saddam Hussein. "They were too frightened to appear in public - says the Chief Justice, Kurdish Rizgar Mohammed - we will work on this problem for the next hearing."
But in that short time, the former Iraqi dictator is able to plead not guilty, the authorities define anything that the processes of the court, stressing that he is the president of Iraq and coming to blows with the guards who were to return to his cell. Saddam has not lost a thing: the ability to move like an actor when he knows he's the world's eyes on him.
While all this was staged in the Hall of Justice set up in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Rory Carroll, 33, Irish Guardian journalist, was kidnapped. He had just left his house in the suburb of Sadr City, after having followed on television the first day of the hearing.
escorted by two police officers, Saddam Hussein wearing a dark suit and a shirt white open neck with whom he had already appeared in court prior to July. Arriva last dopi the 13 defense lawyers, judges, and then followed by the other six defendants. He has a leisurely pace and proud.
of security guards urged him to speed, but he dismisses with a wave of anger their words. Under one arm was a copy of the Koran. Once called to the bar by the court, the former Iraqi president's face was contemptuous air, asking, "Who are you? What do you want?".
Rizgar Mohammed Amin, the chairman of the tribunal, is orgine Kurdish belongs to a people that the former dictator wiped out with the corpses of dozens of gas filling mass graves. But today is not prosecuted those crimes, but they are identical, for the 1982 massacre of Shiites in the town of Dujail.
The first thing you hear is the judge of Saddam's refusal to provide its generality: "Out of respect for the glorious Iraqi people refuse to answer, because this court is illegal." On three occasions, Judge Amin's remade the question and he answers: "You know who I am. You are Iraqi and you know very well that I surrender."
The former president is represented in court by two lawyers, Khalil al-Dulaimi and Khamis Ubaidi Hamid al.
The procedure is celebrated in a hall of the former Museum of Victoria, a building where the former president kept the gifts that were offered by the foreign dignitaries who came on a visit to Baghdad and is located within the superfortificata Green Zone where there are the seat of government and the embassies of the United States and Britain.
Then he sat down next to the other defendants and told them: "Afia", "good." They are the former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Al Tikriti, former chief prosecutor of the deposed regime of the Revolutionary Court, Awad Al Bander and four executives of the dissolved Baath party only (Rebirth), and Mizar Rueid Abdullah, and Ali Mohammed Al Ali.
When he entered the classroom, Al Tikriti - jallabia wearing a white traditional robe to the foot - with the protest because the court had taken away his iakl, the black cord that you put on kefyah, the equally traditional red and white checkered headdress, or blacks. The judge ordered that he be returned, and his half-brother of Saddam Hussein waits up until it happens.
So the most important step. To the question, as you declare the defendant? the answer is: "Not guilty." Finally, the process is updated to 28 November. A court expected, after the lawyer Dulaimi, had said they had not had time to read papers in the process. But the judge gives another version: the absence of witnesses, many of whom were too scared to show up. Others, however, were not summoned for security reasons.
Meanwhile, Saddam goes and is escorted to blows with the guards carried him out of the classroom. The guards try to take the arm of the accused, but he resists. The scuffle is 30 seconds long. Then the security men let go.
Berlusconi 19.05.2009
"These courts I will not prosecute"
Saddam Hussein 19.10.2005
Once called to the bar by the court, the former Iraqi president's turned with contemptuous air, asking, "Who are you? What do you want?"
the first thing you hear is the judge of Saddam's refusal to provide its generality: "Out of respect for the glorious Iraqi people refuse to answer, because this court is illegal"
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