AC Milan's president Silvio Berlusconi waves before the winner ceremony of the XVII Luigi Berlusconi trophy at San Siro Stadium, 17 AUGUST 2007. Italy's supreme court, 26 October 2007, acquitted former premier Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges related to the sale of food group SME, media reports said. The verdict confirmed the acquittal pronounced by an appeals court in Milan last April clearing Berlusconi in a high-profile corruption case involving bribing of judges to keep a business rival out of a lucrative deal. AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
Milan’s largest airport – Milan Malpensa Airport – is to be renamed Silvio BerlusconiAirport, in honour of Italy’s flamboyant and highly controversial former prime minister who died, aged 86, last year.
Berlusconi was from Milan and, for a long period the media and business magnate owned AC Milan football club. He led Italy’s Forza Italia political party to four election victories from the mid-1990s up to 2011.
The airport’s namechange was prompted by a motion by Italy’s current transport minister Matteo Salvini.
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