“I bought paintings and sculptures to find evidence in favor of Silvio”: Paolo Berlusconi witness in a trial for receiving stolen goods in Rome

“I remember having bought, between 2015 and 2018, a dozen works of art by paying a few million euros to find certain evidence on some unclear situations that were contested against my brother, in some trials he had to undergo. I paid a higher price for these works, overvaluing them, to favor them […]

“I remember having bought, between 2015 and 2018, a dozen works of art, paying for them several million euros to find certain tests about some unclear situations that arose complain to my brother, in some trials he had to undergo. I paid for these works to a higher price, overestimating them, to favor these investigations, a research which however later proved fruitless”. She said it Paolo Berlusconibrother of the deceased former prime minister Silvio, before the single judge of Rome, heard as a witness in the trial of three people accused in various capacities of tax evasion And receipt.

A former member of the order was also involved in the proceedings, who has already agreed to a ten-month prison sentence. The works purchased, explained Berlusconi, are one sculpture of a Tuscan putto, various paintings – including a maternity and some portraits – obelisks and a dresser. The payments, he added, “were made with gods bank transfers in several tranches: it’s all traced with tax documents.”