Berlusconi may also face trial over banking scandal

ALREADY under fire for his handling of Italy’s financial crisis and engulfed in a sex scandal, Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi might face another trial in Milan.

The latest storm around Berlusconi centres on a 2005 banking scandal. A Milan judge said yesterday that Berlusconi has broken the law by pushing for the publication in a newspaper owned by his family of wiretapped conversations that should have remained secret because of an ongoing investigation, Italian news agencies reported.

No decision has been made on whether to indict the premier. The final word rests with another magistrate in Milan.