In the football transfer case, Mr Berlusconi - owner and president of AC Milan - was charged with falsifying accounts to conceal illegal payments allegedly made by the club during its 1992 purchase of Gigi Lentini from the Torino club in Turin.
The club cannot make any new signings after a Football League transfer embargo - the club's second of the season - was imposed in November.
Tevez's stunning performances in West Ham's fight against relegation has convinced Ferguson he is worth the time and trouble of football's most complicated transfer, wading through miles of red tape to clinch the deal.
Barry Fry currently acts as the club's director of football and is responsible for conducting transfer negotiations.
The 26-year-old has scored 21 goals in his first season in English football to become the subject of transfer rumours.
He has been making strange comments about his future, about his ambitions in football and lately handing in a transfer request.
However, the transfer embargo imposed by the Football League still remains as the club has yet to lodge year end accounts for May 2009.
It is the latest blow for the Bluebirds, who are under a transfer embargo imposed by the Football League because of continuing concerns over unpaid tax bills.
But the embargo was lifted in March this year - although the Football League still has to approve every transfer - and Howe is poised to secure a number of new signings.
And chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor, believes football has to be mindful of such large transfer fees given the current financial climate.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Liverpool director of football strategy Damien Comolli, the club's transfer guru, was let go last week.
Searle approached the management team last week with a transfer request, citing his desire to play first team football.
"I'd like to thank Portsmouth, the Premier League and the Football Association for their help, understanding and assistance in enabling this transfer to be completed to the satisfaction of all concerned, " City chief executive Alistair Mackintosh told the club's website.
It was all captured by a special 'Beck Cam' which host broadcaster Canal Plus had deployed to follow every move of the 37-year-old football icon, such has been the level of interest since his transfer to France's Ligue 1 from MLS side LA Galaxy.
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Baptiste handed in a transfer request to the Field Mill club following their relegation from the Football League.
City executive chairman Garry Cook has made it clear that Hughes will continue to "run the football side of the business" and have control over the club's transfer policy.
And the club's summer transfer budget will be further hit by the lack of guaranteed Champions League football next term.
The Reading director of football went on to reveal the club had been unable to persuade a couple of transfer targets to join the Royals, despite their impressive form in the Premier League last season.
Bodde, who has already had a transfer request rejected by Swansea, impressed in his first full season in English football.
Tottenham club chairman Daniel Levy declared the transfer had been an "enforced sale" and had reported Liverpool to the Football Association (FA) for their initial dealings, a complaint that has now been withdrawn.
It has massive debts to meet following the huge transfer deals of recent managers, and the construction work that is transforming St James Park into an football stadium masterpiece.
Brazil's professional football clubs are in fact departments of social clubs, whose amateur administrators often make a fat illicit living from the transfer fees paid for their stars by foreign clubs.
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