Waziri mkuu wa zamani wa Italia Silvio Berlusconi ahukumiwa jela miaka 4


Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, was sentenced to four years in prison for tax evasion, only for the prison term to be reduced swiftly to one year.

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Mr Berlusconi has been tried numerous times for his business dealings Photo: AFP/GETTY




By Nick Squires, Rome and Alex Spillius

5:26PM BST 26 Oct 2012


The court in Milan said the reduction was a result of a 2006 amnesty law, passed by a rival Left-wing government, aimed at reducing prison overcrowding.

Its decision to cut his sentence by 75 per cent was a reminder of how Mr Berlusconi, despite numerous marathon legal battles and four previous guilty verdicts, has never been to prison.

Mr Berlusconi's lawyers appealed minutes after the pronouncement of the first conviction, which included a three-year ban on holding public office.

Given the shorter sentence and their client's record of running down the legal clock and winning appeals, the colourful 76-year-old politician and tycoon is unlikely to spend time behind bars in the near future, if at all.The statute of limitations in the case is set to expire sometime next year.

Defence lawyers Piero Longo and Niccolo Ghedini denounced the guilty verdict as "incredible".


"It is to be hoped that in the appeals court there will be a different atmosphere," they said, describing the decision by the Milan court as "totally divorced from all judicial logic".

The sentence was heavier than the three years and eight months requested by prosecutors, and was the longest of the four Berlusconi has received so far in a career marked by marathon legal battles. The judges have yet to release their official explanation of their verdict or sentencing decision.


Allies of the controversial former premier reacted with fury.


Angelino Alfano, the head of Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, said the conviction was "unexpected and incomprehensible" and "the umpteenth" attack by a biased judiciary on Berlusconi.


Luca D'Alessandro, an MP from the party, said: "The politicised court in Milan has struck once again. They have given Berlusconi a four year prison sentence for a crime he did not commit, as was shown by the documentary evidence."


The verdict comes two days after
Mr Berlusconi announced he will not run in upcoming elections. He stepped down last November after Italycame under mounting pressure to deal with its high debts and he failed to come up with persuasive financial reforms.


He has been tried numerous times for his business dealings as head of the Mediaset empire and AC Milan football club, beginning before he was elected to the first of his three terms as premier in 1994.


He has always denied wrongdoing and alleged that the cases were politically motivated. In each case to date, he has been cleared or seen the statute of limitations expire.


He is also on trial in Milan on charges of paying for sex with an under-age teenager and trying to cover it up. He denies the allegations.


The court found that Mr Berlusconi and 10 co-defendants were behind a scheme by Mediaset to purchase the rights to broadcast American films on his private television networks through a series of offshore companies, and had falsely declared the payments to avoid taxes.


Prosecutors said that they inflated the price for the TV rights of some 3,000 films as they re-licensed them internally to Berlusconi's networks, pocketing the difference that amounted to 250 million euros.


Other charges of false accounting and false statements in financial reports were thrown out because the statute of limitations expired.


The trial began in July 2006, but was put on hold by a now-defunct immunity law that shielded Berlusconi from prosecution while he was premier, until it was watered down by the constitutional court.


The trial also faced delays as Berlusconi cited conflicts with his schedule as prime minister. He is entitled to two levels of appeal.




 
basi haendi kokote.

Watamzimisha yule binti na hatatokea kabisa.

Ila hiyo limitation ya muda ndio imeniacha hoi.

Binti ni kweli alikuwa hatoi ushirikiano,akisema eti ni mara yake ya kwanza kukutana na mwanamme aliyempa cash na jewerly bila kutaka kumwingilia kimwili lol!
 
Unakumbuka na wale wanasayansi wa hali ya hewa walioshindwa kutoa tahadhari ya kutosha ya tetemeko, nao wameswekwa miaka sita sita na faini ya kutosha.
TMA ya hapa wanatudanganya wee lakini tunacheka cheka tu.

Kumfunga mwanasayansi kwa kushindwa kutabiri vyema kuhusu tetemeko la ardhi is outrageous.
 
Nasikia hiyo miaka minne tayari imeshapunguzwa within hours na kuwa mwaka mmoja kwa sababu ya amnesty law.
 
ni kweli ni kitu cha kushangaza kwa mtazamo wa kisayansi.

Maana utabiri huwa ni muongozo lakini kujua kiuhalisia kila kitu nayo kuna ugumu wake.

Na inaweza kuketa athari baadae aidha kwa kuwafanya watoe taarifa za makadirio ya juu ili wasije tiwa hatiani siku mambo yakienda mrama.

Kumfunga mwanasayansi kwa kushindwa kutabiri vyema kuhusu tetemeko la ardhi is outrageous.
 
Kumfunga mwanasayansi kwa kushindwa kutabiri vyema kuhusu tetemeko la ardhi is outrageous.

Just like Berlusconi, the scientists are unlikely to go to jail immediately because in the Italian justice system, convictions are not definitive until after at least one level of appeal.

Just like Berlusconi, they might also be entitled to an amnesty.

This is the same court that declared a man innocent for groping an apparently fashionably dressed woman (with some revelation of her figure) because his reaction was "impulsive and unavoidable."

I wonder why people applaud the Italian criminal system.
 
Mzee wa strippers alikua kwenye mkakati wa kurudi tena kuchukua uongozi wa chama

Actually judiciary system iko independent kwelikweli.Bado case ya ku-date under age

Italian Judiciary system iko independent??? Since when???? do you know what you're talking about?? Ni vigezo gani umetumia kufikia hiyo conclusion??? Haya ndiyo mambo yanayonifanya niwe disapponted na JF mtu kama wewe ambaye umeenda shule unafikia mahali unatoa conclusion just for the sake of...Have you ever heard of "le correnti politiche nella magistratura Italiana??" the so called Magistratura democratica,Magistratura Independenti et cetera. Umewahi kusikia kuhusu MANI PULITE na akina nani walihukumiwa na nani waliachwa na kwasababu zipi??? Do some research then we'll talk about it!!! JUDICIARY SYSTEM IN ITALY HAS NEVER BEEN "INDEPENDENT".
 
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Appeal process na mafia may help him, lakini sidhani kama judicial system ya Italia ni nzuri kama inavyosifiwa hapa.

Huyu jamaa keshashtakiwa mara nyingi juu ya masuala yanayohusiana na biashara zake, lakini kwenye kesi zote hakukutwa na kosa lolote ama kinachoitwa “the statute of limitations” ya makosa husika zilikuwa zina-expire kabla ya kesi kumalizika.

Tofautisha na kwetu ambapo unaweza kushtakiwa leo kwa kosa la jinai ulilotenda mwaka 47. In Tanzanian criminal system, time does not run against the State. But in the Italian criminal system, time does run again the State, serve for offences punishable by life imprisonment

Kwenye hii kesi ya leo aliyokutwa na hatia, statute of limitation ya kosa husika ina-expire mwakami. Kumbuka it is not enough that the case was started before the statute of limitations ran out; it is the final verdict that must be handed down before the term expires.

Sasa kama akikata rufaa na statute of limitation ya hilo kosa ika-expire kabla ya rufaa kumalizika then, kuna uwezekano akaachiwa on that basis hata kama kweli alitenda hilo kosa.This is possible ikizingatiwa kuwa rufaa za Italia lazima zipitie two levels of appeal kabla ya kufikia hukumu ya mwisho.

So, the sentence is merely a political stunt. Even the judge who delivered the verdict knows this. Ndiyo maana kampa miaka minne badala ya miaka mitatu na nusu aliyoomba prosecutor to elevate the stunt. He will never see the inside of a jail. He will pull all the strings and will be sentenced for a lesser term than Paris Hilton.

Hapo ndipo patamu, kwa tafsiri ya sheria hiyo ni kuwa mzee wa totoz bado ananguvu ya kukwepa kuishi nyuma ya nondo kwa miaka minne,

Wanasheria wake bila shaka wanautambua mtego huo na wanajiandaa kuutumia ipasavyo!
 
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Just like Berlusconi, the scientists are unlikely to go to jail immediately because in the Italian justice system, convictions are not definitive until after at least one level of appeal.

Just like Berlusconi, they might also be entitled to an amnesty.

This is the same court that declared a man innocent for groping an apparently fashionably dressed woman (with some revelation of her figure) because his reaction was "impulsive and unavoidable."

I wonder why people applaud the Italian criminal system.

Mimi siishabikii hata kidogo. Na nonavyoona ile kuwahukumu miaka sita tu tayari ni dosari kubwa kwa mahakama hata kama watakutikana bila ya hatia katika mahakama ya rufaa.

Wanataka kuturudisha kule kule kwa Galileo Galilei
 
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Hapo ndipo patamu, kwa tafsiri ya sheria hiyo ni kuwa mzee wa totoz bado ananguvu ya kukwepa kuishi nyuma ya nondo kwa miaka minne,

Wanasheria wake bila shaka wanautambua mtego huo na wanajiandaa kuutumia ipasavyo!

Tayari miaka hiyo minne imeshashushwa to just one year.
 
nakubaliana na wewe
hata kama hawataenda jela ila ile kuhukumiwa tu

imeacha taharuki katika utabiri na makadirio ya kisayansi

Just like Berlusconi, the scientists are unlikely to go to jail immediately because in the Italian justice system, convictions are not definitive until after at least one level of appeal.

Just like Berlusconi, they might also be entitled to an amnesty.

This is the same court that declared a man innocent for groping an apparently fashionably dressed woman (with some revelation of her figure) because his reaction was "impulsive and unavoidable."

I wonder why people applaud the Italian criminal system.
 
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Casanova atakamatwa hapo.Worse enough huyo stripper ni under age.Halafu inakuaje kwa club kuajiri stripper ambaye ni under age? sheria zinasemaje wakati club inapofanya vetting katika kuwa-recruit?
Sheria za Itali,consent age ni 14 yrs,only if hakuna malipo kama ya prostitution.Kwahiyo tatizo kwake ni kwasababu alimpa cash na vito vya thamani,which siyo shida kama ni kweli haikuwa quid pro quo.

Asingekuwa na shida kama kusingekuwepo na ushahidi wa kumpa cash,so wanachotafuta ni ushahidi wa ngono.
 
Tayari miaka hiyo minne imeshashushwa to just one year.
Na hiyo one year,sheria za Italia zinasema kama ni mtu mwenye umri wa miaka 70 au zaidi,basi hapelekwi jela labda iwe kesi ya terrorism ama mafia.Hii ni kwasababu pia ya kujaa kwa jela.
 
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Yeah binti akionekana ataharibu Mafia hawatamchelewesha
You should do justice to yourself!!!! What is the connection between Berlusconi and Mafia??? A second disappointment from you today - this is what Italians refer to as parlare a vanvera or arrampicarsi sugli specchi - watu mnakaa sana JF na mna nia ya kuchangia kila hoja as a result you begin dispensing unwise comments. Mi nafikiri for some of you si vibaya mkikaa mbali na JF kama nilivyofanya mimi kwa miezi 5 na ninawahakikishia you'll come back fresh and wise thence preserving the credibility of JF.
ciao
 
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