ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi was sent to trial on Friday for allegedly bribing a businessman to lie over accusations he had supplied the former Italian prime minister with prostitutes a decade ago.
Prosecutors say Berlusconi gave Gianpaolo Tarantini 500,000 euros ($570,000) in cash, found him a job and supplied him with lawyers to say that the then-premier did not know the women were being paid to attend parties at his villa.
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