Silvio Berlusconi's firm told to pay €560m over bribe

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Source: guardian.co.uk

As one international media tycoon was flying to London to deal with the crisis in his empire, another cut short a visit to the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa and hastened to Rome after being dealt the heaviest blow yet in his controversial business career.

Silvio Berlusconi learned on Saturday that judges in Milan had ordered his company Fininvest to hand over more than half a billion euros to his deadliest rival.

The money is compensation for bribery of a judge to rule in Berlusconi's favour in his struggle with the industrialist Carlo De Benedetti for control of Mondadori, Italy's biggest publishing house.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/10/silvio-berlusconi-firm-bribery

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Good news. It is always good to see that the rich ones aren't always walking free.