Prosecutor seeks five-year jail term for Berlusconi

The acquittal of former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges should be reversed, a prosecutor told a Milan court today.

In 2004, a Milan court acquitted Berlusconi of charges he had bribed judges in connection with the sale in the 1980s of the SME state food conglomerate. The three-judge panel cleared him on one count and said the statute of limitations had run out on a second.