Berlusconi: Conviction the result of 'politicised' judges

Former premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has been convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to four years in prison, has condemned the convictions as "unreal".

The conviction was the 76-year-old media mogul’s first in a long series of trials, but it did not mean he was going to prison right away. Cases in Italy must pass two levels of appeal before the verdicts are final.