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Factbox-Berlusconi's many court battles, one sole conviction

FILE PHOTO: Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi looks on at a polling station during the snap election, in Milan, Italy, September 25, 2022. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo

An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over allegations of bribing witnesses in an underage prostitution case.

Berlusconi was accused of paying 24 people, mostly young guests at his so-called Bunga Bunga parties, to provide false testimony in a previous trial where he was charged with paying for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan nightclub dancer.

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