Prosecutors seek to indict three Berlusconi aides

MILAN prosecutors have asked a judge to indict three aides of Premier Silvio Berlusconi on charges they recruited a girl and several women for prostitution.

Berlusconi’s case was separated from that of the aides. The premier went on trial last month in Milan on charges of paying for sex with an underage Moroccan teenager and nightclub dancer and using his influence to cover it up.

The three aides are Emilio Fede, a top TV executive in Berlusconi’s media empire; Nicole Minetti, a former showgirl and now a local politician, and Dario ‘Lele’ Mora, a talent scout and agent. All three deny wrongdoing. Berlusconi also denies wrongdoing.