Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to community service for tax fraud

 

Silvio Berlusconi ordered to visit old folks' home for a year as he is sentenced to community service for tax fraud

Silvio Berlusconi has been ordered to perform community service at an old people's home at least one day a week as part of his one-year sentence for tax fraud.

Silvio Berlusconi(77)the former Italian Prime Minister has already had his passport confiscated as part of a travel ban which means his is forbidden from leaving the Lombardy region where he has his principal residence.
It means Silvio Berlusconi is unable to visit his properties in the Alps and the Caribbean and may prevent him from campaigning for his Forza Italia party ahead of European Parliament elections next month

An earlier request to leave Italy to go to a meeting of the anti-Europeans parties in Holland was refused last month.It is the latest in a series of embarrassing blows for Berlusconi who was kicked out of Parliament last year after the high court upheld his conviction and 4-year prison sentence.Silvio Berlusconi,the 3-times former premier(1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011) won't do any jail time for the tax fraud conviction, which concerned the purchase of TV rights to U.S. films for Berlusconi's Mediaset network.
The term has been reduced to one year under an amnesty, and Berlusconi will serve it either under house arrest or doing community service.

Despite the ban on holding or running for public office, Berlusconi remains a force in Italian politics, heading his Forza Italia party.
Silvio Berlusconi,former Italian Prime Minister is also appealing a prison sentence for having sex with an underage 17-year-old prostitute known as Ruby the Heartstealer and abuse of office, and another for leaking a confidential police wiretap.

About Silvio Berulusconi(DOB Sep 29,1936)

• is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owner of the Italian FC A C Milan  since 1986

• was Prime Minister for  3 terms(1994-96,2001-06 and 2008-11)9 years in total, making him the longest serving  post-war Prime Minister of Italy, and the 3rd longest serving  since the Unification of Italy, after Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Giolitti 

• was the leader of the centre-right party Forza Italia  from 1994 to 2009, and its successor party The People of Freedom  from 2009 to 2013.