Even as Silvio Berlusconi prepared yesterday to relaunch himself as a world statesman before the G8 summit, Italian prosecutors were suggesting that the Prime Minister could be questioned in a drugs and prostitution inquiry.
Mr Berlusconi will try to put two months of scandals behind him with a press conference today on a cruise ship off Naples to outline his agenda for the summit on July 8-10.
On Wednesday he is due to travel to Libya to meet Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who made a controversial trip to Rome less than three weeks ago to seal accords on trade and illegal immigration.
However, prosecutors in Bari, in southern Italy, were reported as saying that he could be summoned as a witness as their inquiry continued into Giampaolo Tarantini, a local businessman at the centre of a scandal involving women sent to parties hosted by the Prime Minister.
There is no suggestion that Mr Berlusconi is under investigation in the drugs and prostitution investigation.
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