Italy's top court on Friday definitively cleared former prime minister Giulio Andreotti of charges that he had links to the Mafia. The Court of Cassation upheld the verdict of two previous trails in Palermo that had cleared the statesman of having protected the crime group while he was in office. With Friday's ruling the charges against Andreotti, who served as prime minister seven times in the post-war period and is now a life senator, were definitively shelved.
