Italy parliament votes to allow arrest of Berlusconi ally


  • World
  • Tuesday, 22 Jul 2014

ROME (Reuters) - The Italian parliament voted on Tuesday to lift immunity from arrest for one of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's oldest associates, implicated in a massive bribery scandal linked to a flood barrier project in Venice.

Giancarlo Galan, a former governor of the Veneto region and ex-minister and one of the founding members of Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, has been accused of taking bribes to smooth approvals for companies involved in the project.

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