In Milan

Dell'Utri and his wife on trial for the 42 million received from Berlusconi

The former senator and his wife are facing a Milan court for alleged financial irregularities related to Berlusconi's donations, with allegations of fictitious registration and asset violations.

27 April 2026

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The former Fi senator, Marcello Dell'Utri, and his wife Miranda Ratti have been sent to trial in Milan for the affair of alleged donations amounting to around EUR 42 million, in eight transfers, received from Silvio Berlusconi.

This was decided today by the gup Giulia Marozzi.

The first hearing will take place on 9 July 2026 before the second criminal section of the court.

The prescription was triggered on part of the donations.

In March 2025, the case was transferred from Florence to Milan due to territorial jurisdiction on the basis of an exception raised by the defence lawyers Francesco Centonze and Filippo Dinacci

The former Forza Italia senator is charged with violation of the Rognoni-La Torre law, in that he allegedly failed to disclose asset variations in excess of EUR 42 million received between 2014 and 2024, failing to comply with obligations linked to his definitive (and expiated) conviction for external participation in mafia association.

Against his wife, on the other hand, fictitious registration of assets is alleged;

According to the prosecutors in Florence, that money donated by the founder of Forza Italia to the former manager of Publitalia was used to guarantee him impunity before the magistrates on his alleged involvement in the '93 massacres.

However, the exclusion of the mafia aggravating circumstance by the Florentine gup changed the accusatory framework, untying it from the massacres, and the proceedings were transferred to the Lombard capital where the former senator resides.

Dda prosecutor Pasquale Addesso and prosecutor Marcello Viola, who are in charge of the file, and who therefore claim that the obligation provided for by the law on prevention measures to combat and repress the mafia has been circumvented, had asked and obtained from gip Emanuele Mancini the confirmation of the seizure of EUR 10 million and EUR 840,000 already carried out in March 2024 in Florence.