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Rome – from www.news.sky.com – Prosecutors have formally requested that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces trial on charges of under-age sex and abuse of power.
Berlusconi, 74, has been at the centre of lurid sleaze allegations involving Moroccan belly dancer Karima El Mahroug for almost a month.
He is said to have had sex with Miss Mahroug last year at one of his infamous ”bunga bunga” parties – a reference to an after dinner sex game involving women dressed as nurses and police officers stripping.
Prosecutors say Miss Mahroug was just 17 at the time and although above the age of consent of 14, as he paid her she was in effect a prostitute.
Investigators also say that he then abused his position as prime minister to have her freed from custody when she was arrested in May of last year for theft.
He is alleged to have called the police station in Milan where she was being held and asked for her to be released by wrongly claiming she was the daughter of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
Investigating judge Cristina Di Censo will now have five days to decide if there is enough evidence to go to fast track trial on both charges as prosecutors are demanding.
If judge Di Censo believes there is a case to answer the trial could begin as early as next month and it will not be the first time Berlusconi has been involved in a court proceedings.
He is currently involved in two corruption trials and has in the past been cleared several times of allegations for fraud and tax evasion while in other cases the statute of limitations has been passed bringing trials to an end without conclusion.
Berlusconi’s lawyers are fighting the attempt to bring him to trial by claiming the prosecutors in Milan have no jurisdiction as the alleged offences took place in Berlusconi’s villa at Arcore which comes under the neighbouring district of Monza.
They have also filed dozens of statements from female guests at the parties who insist they were not of a sexual nature but merely pleasant dinners at which the conversation ranged from politics to gossip.
His lawyers are also expected to make a formal request for her birth certificate to be retrieved from Morocco as they claim she is in fact 19 and the sex charge is therefore null and void.
The doubt stems from the fact that she gave her date of birth as being November 1 1991, not 1992, in a police statement in 2009 to report a stolen bag.
However, prosecution documents and statements from her lawyers all list her date of birth as November 1 1992.
Berlusconi has denied any wrong doing and has continually insisted that he is a victim of left-leaning Milanese prosecutors who are out to topple him.
Prostitution is legal in Italy but having sex with a prostitute under the age of 18 is punishable by a jail term of up to three years. Abuse of office carries a jail term of up to 12 years.