Silvio Berlusconi is also accused of paying for sex to one underage prostitute. REUTERS

• He faces other three trials in which he is accused of corruption and tax evasion

Charged with revealing confidential information in banking scandal in 2005

MILAN, Italy (07/FEB/2012)-former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi will go to trial in March, accused of disclosing confidential information in a case related to a banking scandal in 2005, reported Tuesday his lawyer, adding another process to its list of legal problems.

Berlusconi, who resigned in November, beset by scandals and instability in financial markets, already facing other three trials in which he is accused of corruption, tax evasion and pay for sex to one underage prostitute.

“As expected.” “We have lost count of the trials,” said Berlusconi’s lawyer Niccolo Ghedini. The trial will begin on March 15.

The latest case comes from accusations that Berlusconi did pressure for a newspaper owned by his brother published a recorded conversation that should have remained secret because of an investigation in progress.

The conversation occurred in 2005 when the insurance company Unipol had submitted a tender for the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which then failed and prompted an investigation into some managers of the operation by possible financial crimes.

“The phone call is heard to Piero Fassino, then main rival of Berlusconi as leader of the biggest party in the center-left, asking the Chief of Unipol:”
Then, to have a bank? “.”

The conversation not suggested that the politician had committed a crime, but was kept secret by prosecutors investigating possible improper interference in the case, and Berlusconi, who was then Prime Minister, was able to hear the recording.

Berlusconi is accused of pressing to Il Giornale published the transcript to damage the center left.

Tycoon denies any malpractice and accuses of orchestrating a campaign against judges with political motivations. In a hearing that took place on Tuesday, Berlusconi said he never heard the recording and not ordered his release, said Ghedini.

Some time ago that former Prime Minister criticized the prosecution for using conversations recorded in the cases against him, claiming has been spied. His Government unsuccessfully, banning newspapers to publish the filtered contents of recorded conversations.