BERLUSCONI LINKED TO MAFIA IN COURT EVIDENCE

A jailed mafia hitman has linked Silvio Berlusconi to Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, telling a Turin court that a clan boss convicted for a spate of deadly bombings boasted of ties to Berlusconi in the early 1990s, just before the Italian prime minister entered politics.

Gaspare Spatuzza, a mob killer turned state witness, said today that boss Giuseppe Graviano told him Berlusconi and his business partner Marcello Dell’Utri had “practically placed the country in our hands”.

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