The magistrates who launched the mani pulite (clean hands) investigations into corruption in 1992 have used the current legislation to prosecute a string of businessmen, including Mr Berlusconi.
In January Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, visited the island with a string of businessmen in tow, signing trade and investment deals worth $1 billion.Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, has reversed his predecessor's policy of speaking out against the lack of human rights in Cuba, and has restored his country's traditionally close ties.
In pursuit of this trend, Mr Bezos may push the Post to have more of a direct relationship with readers, through personalised content and cleverly targeted special offers (think of Amazon's "recommended purchases").The sale of the Post is the latest in a string of recent deals in which businessmen from non-media industries have snapped up print newspapers.
The other was Mr. Rotem, a retired businessman who owned a string of supermarkets in Israel.
But lawyers for Mr Juffali said that businessman, who owns a string of properties in Britain including a Surrey estate worth at least £15m, had been the subject of a concerted campaign by his wife and her legal representatives to persuade Britain to demand that its former colony strip the billionaire of his legal privileges.
He is a businessman who has built and sold a string of successful software companies.
He meets a local businessman, a Turkish immigrant named Ali (Hilmi Sözer), who has a string of snack bars, which he runs on a tight rein, and a German wife, Laura (Nina Hoss), who is no less under his command.
A string of more than 60 prosecutions followed, including, in Britain, that of Abbas Gokal, a businessman with intimate ties to the bank, who received a record 14-year jail sentence.
Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public office, has courted controversy with a string of inflammatory statements about his main opponent Hillary Clinton, guns, Mexicans, Muslims and war veterans, among others.
With backing from wealthy businessmen and neighbouring Saudi Arabia, they raised about 10,000 men and set up a string of military encampments such as the one where the Cat was training his fighters.
Edutrust, a multi-faith charity chaired by the businessman Lord Bhatia, faces an allegation that it mishandled money awarded to open a string of academies across England.
