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Berlusconi set to appeal against tax fraud conviction
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Lawyers for former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are to appeal against his jail sentence for tax fraud, media reports say.
The appeal will be lodged by 10 November, reports said, and could take several years.
Mr Berlusconi and others were convicted of inflating the price of distribution rights bought by his Mediaset group to avoid paying taxes.
On Friday a Milan court sentenced him to four years but later cut it to one.
The media mogul was also barred from holding office for five years.
A furious Mr Berlusconi later went on national television to condemn the sentence as "intolerable judicial harassment".
He has long complained that he is being persecuted by left-leaning judges in Milan.
"It is a political, incredible and intolerable judgement," Mr Berlusconi said on Italia 1 - one of the TV stations he owns.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20106777
Note: 27 October 2012 Last updated at 01:15 GMT
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