Xclusive: Silvio Berlusconi Sentenced To 7 Years In Jail For Prostitution Case

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzuleDUZGmMbleXaZ03S28XBr2XOVP4XMgZo0DnlPwyVJ2PQ-5dFlaoOgZB526HTruLxKkS2YRh3iGnwUum0GOa5mz4RBGTQhlhxgDK9AvzIENmX5QI9niiVoKct9w8ac0oPnB_qwQNeo/s1600/barlosconni.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzuleDUZGmMbleXaZ03S28XBr2XOVP4XMgZo0DnlPwyVJ2PQ-5dFlaoOgZB526HTruLxKkS2YRh3iGnwUum0GOa5mz4RBGTQhlhxgDK9AvzIENmX5QI9niiVoKct9w8ac0oPnB_qwQNeo/s1600/barlosconni.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The 76-year-old has been found guilty of sex and corruption offenses and also banned from taking up political office pending an appeal<br /><br />AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty of charges of corruption and soliciting an underage prostitute.<br /><br />The 76-year-old was accused of paying for sex with Moroccan girl Karima El Mahroug in 2010, when she was 17, as well as abusing his position in public office for attempting to force her release from police custody over a charge of petty theft.</span></div> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>Although prosecutors sought the maximum six-year custodial sentence for the former Italian Premier, a court in Milan issued a seven-year punishment following the guilty verdict, in addition to a lifetime ban from politics, pending any appeal from Berlusconi's solicitors.<br /><br />However, it could be months or even years before he serves any punishment, with Berlusconi entitled to appeal the verdict twice before it becomes final.<br /><br />Berlusconi is already embroiled in several legal battles in the Italian courts. In October 2012, he was issued a four-year prison sentence for tax fraud, which has been upheld following a first appeal.

Xclusive: Silvio Berlusconi Sentenced To 7 Years In Jail For Prostitution Case

The 76-year-old has been found guilty of sex and corruption offenses and also banned from taking up political office pending an appeal A...

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Xclusive: N3.7 Billion To Any Nigerian Who Has Information On The Where Abouts Of The Boko Haran Leader

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4ZhP_CqLPHEw7fnGZ0BoPNlTdmlDh72MO3PXkhkFELA7ZP9e1RdpbVE4YYKo5B6TgVFfeDodSxWA7gq-sDqVZExwhI8T9d8RM1cRpxV-1bop5b9Kv_apC3XWoY76wGYzNAP4oVvkTDc/s1600/Shekau-wanted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW4ZhP_CqLPHEw7fnGZ0BoPNlTdmlDh72MO3PXkhkFELA7ZP9e1RdpbVE4YYKo5B6TgVFfeDodSxWA7gq-sDqVZExwhI8T9d8RM1cRpxV-1bop5b9Kv_apC3XWoY76wGYzNAP4oVvkTDc/s640/Shekau-wanted.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> The US today Monday June 3rd posted up to $23 million in rewards to help track down five leaders of militant groups accused of spreading terror in west Africa.<br /> <br /> The highest reward of $7 million is offered for the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, who last week called on Islamists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the bloody fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.<br /> <br /> The US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program also targeted Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), offering its first ever bounties for wanted militants in west Africa.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5438533803477296299" name="more"></a><br /> Up to $5 million was posted for Al-Qaeda veteran Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Islamist behind the devastating attack on an Algerian gas plant in January in which 37 foreigners, including three Americans, were killed.<br /> <br /> A further $5 million was offered for top AQIM leader Yahya Abou Al-Hammam, reportedly involved in the 2010 murder of an elderly French hostage in Niger.<br /> <br />  Malik Abou Abdelkarim, a senior fighter with AQIM, and Oumar Ould Hamaha, the spokesman for Mali’s Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), were also targeted by the rewards program, which will give up to $3 million each for information leading to their arrests.<br /> <br /> Source: AFP

Xclusive: N3.7 Billion To Any Nigerian Who Has Information On The Where Abouts Of The Boko Haran Leader

The US today Monday June 3rd posted up to $23 million in rewards to help track down five leaders of militant groups accused of spreading...

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