Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has survived political, corruption and sex scandals over the years, but on Oct 26,2012 Friday, a Milan court sentenced the flamboyant politician to four years in prison for tax evasion.
Silvio Berlusconi, who is likely to appeal, called it an "unacceptable political sentence"
Under the Italian legal system, Berlusconi and his fellow defendants have the right to appeal their sentence twice, in the appeals court and a higher court.
It is to be noted that Silvio Berlusconi(76) resigned
as prime minister in Nov 2011 amid his country's debt crisis, bringing
to an apparent end an 18-year era in which he dominated Italian
politics.
Through the years, he was accused of embezzlement, fraud and bribery, but he was never convicted until the tax evasion case.
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