http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Berlusconi_and_Mills_to_stand_trial.html?siteSect=143&sid=6878760&cKey=1152302020000MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian judge on Friday ordered ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills to standtrial for alleged fraud at broadcaster Mediaset, the latest in a string of court cases involving the country's richest man.
Mills, the estranged husband of Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, was among 13 other people the judge ordered to be tried over the alleged fraud at the Berlusconi family's broadcaster Mediaset, judicial and legal sources said.
The case, which Berlusconi has dismissed as politically motivated, follows a four-year investigation into claims of embezzlement, false accounting, tax fraud and money laundering in television rights deals between 1994 and 1999.
Berlusconi, a flamboyant showman who defied national opinion and backed U.S. President George W. Bush's war in Iraq, could face up to six years in jail for tax fraud if convicted