Silvio Berlusconi due to appear at court
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to attend a court hearing on Monday over allegations of breach of trust in his business interests, media reports quoted his lawyer as saying.
"The plan is for the prime minister to attend the hearing on Monday but if he has institutional duties it's obvious that he will not be able to come," said his lawyer Piero Longo, the reports said Sunday.
The hearing in Milan is set to decide whether Berlusconi, a billionaire tycoon-turned-politician whose family now runs his media empire, should stand trial for the case involving his company Mediatrade.