An Italian claiming to be the inheritor to the fortune of the late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was caught in Colombia for forging paperwork, native authorities and media reported.
Identified as Marco Di Nunzio, the 56-year-old man insists that Berlusconi wrote a will within the Caribbean metropolis of Cartagena (within the north) earlier than his demise, through which he ordered that he be given 2% of the shares of the corporate Fininvest, a ship and a home in Antigua and Barbuda.
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It is claimed that the Colombian lawyer’s workplace confirmed this assertion by the press officer and the Italian prime minister who died in June 2023, however those that run the skilled desk assured the media that the doc is “unlawful”.
On Wednesday, Di Nunzio was arrested in Cartagena by brokers of the Prosecutor’s Office and members of the Navy, sources from these companies who requested to not be recognized advised AFP on Thursday.
The informants didn’t specify the explanations for his arrest, for the reason that trial remains to be ongoing.
Journalists say Di Nunzio was caught on suspicion of “falsifying paperwork” concerning the proceedings.
The Italian would have introduced that can to his nation’s authorities to assert the rights to a part of the Berlusconi property, whose fortune was estimated by enterprise journal Forbes at about $6.9 billion earlier than his demise.
After the demise – on the age of 86 – of the politician who dominated Italian political life in current many years, the Ansa information company printed a will, in accordance with which he left 109 million to his final associate, Marta Fascina.
The relaxation was particularly meant for his 5 kids born from two marriages.