Fmr Italian PM Berlusconi To Stand Trial On Corruption Charges...

Associated Press October 31, 2006 12:05 PM

A Milan court on Monday ordered former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and a British lawyer to stand trial on charges of corruption.

Berlusconi is accused of ordering the payment in 1997 of at least $600,000 to David Mills in exchange for the lawyer's false testimony in two trials against Berlusconi. Both men deny the allegations.

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