“Rubygate”: Moroccan Karima El Mahroug returns to court

The Supreme Court of Italy has just annulled the decision of a Milan court which acquitted former Italian President Silvio Berlusconi in February 2023, as well as 23 people, accused of having accepted bribes from this last to testify in his favor in the “Rubygate” affair.

Italian justice will reopen the investigation into the “Rubygate” affair. Berlusconi’s death in June 2023 does not extinguish the legal action against him and that of his co-defendants, mainly women invited to his “Bunga-Bunga” evenings, whom he allegedly bribed so that they would testify on his behalf. favor. Prosecuted for witness tampering and false testimony, the former Italian president and his co-defendants were acquitted in February 2023 by a court in Milan.