Berlusconi acquitted in trial tied to ‘bunga bunga’ parties

Silvio Berlusconi (Andrew Medichini/AP)

Italian former premier Silvio Berlusconi has been found not guilty of witness tampering in a trial related to the sexually charged “bunga bunga” parties at his villa near Milan while he was in office.

The six-year-old trial is the third and likely final case in a scandal that made headlines around the world in 2010 when Mr Berlusconi as a sitting premier faced charges – of which he was eventually acquitted – of having paid for sex with an under-age teenager.