Once the inquiry has finished sifting through agreatmassof evidence, the judge is expected to decide on what shape a criminal trial will take - who will be charged and with what, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Grosseto.
The financial upsets of the past two decades, and especially the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s, have yielded amassof new information and spurred agreat deal of activity under each of these headings.
