Ruby Rubacuori bring down Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi has been formally placed under investigation on suspicion of paying for sex with a girl of 17 years, according to a statement released by prosecutors in Milan.

He was accused of abusing his position as Italy's prime minister to put pressure on the police to cover up his alleged relationship with the girl, who worked as a prostitute. The two alleged crimes carry sentences totaling 15 years in prison.

According to a series of reports by the media last October Mahroug Berlusconi met, then 17, by Nicole Minetti, a TV showgirl turned dental hygienist who has acquired a position in Berlusconi's Freedom People Party after catching her eye while cleaning your teeth.

Mahroug insisted that he had slept with the prime minister of 74 years old, but she told Italian newspapers that attended "Bunga Bunga" sex parties at his mansion near Milan. The station commander said he was released after police received a call from the prime minister's office said - erroneously - that was the granddaughter of the president of many years of service in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak.

Berlusconi, the opposition calls to resign ridiculed the affair, saying: ". As always, I work without interruption and if occasionally I can think of looking at a beautiful girl in the face, it's better like girls to be beautiful gay

Now the prime minister should be formally investigated over allegations he abused his office to conceal his relationship with Mahroug and he paid for sex.