FORMER Italian Prime Minister, billionaire, and politician Silvio Berlusconi has received an inheritance worth 3 million euros (US$3.5 million) from a former secretary, who passed away about a month ago, a lawyer of the deceased woman announced.

“Madam Anna C. has reached out to us recently. The woman who passed away about 20 days ago asked us to prepare a testament in favor of former prime minister, with whom she worked as a secretary at the Council of Ministers,” Andrea Ferrari said Friday. The woman had no husband or children, which is why she decided to leave three properties and two bank accounts to Berlusconi as “a gratitude for years of joint work.”

Berlusconi was found guilty of tax fraud and barred from running a public office for six years in 2013, however, he returned to politics and became a member of Parliament in March.(SD-Agencies)