Berlusconi admits 8216;hes a sinner8217;

Prosecutors have accused him of paying for sex with a nightclub dancer when she was under 18 and using his authority to pressure police into releasing her from custody over separate theft allegations.

I,sometimes,like everyone,am a sinner but the type of moralistic justice being waged against me is8230; simply scandalous, the Daily Mail quoted him as saying in the interview.

Describing magistrates as politically motivated,Berlusconi said their investigation was farcical and worthy of the espionage hunting expeditions on other peoples lives that were carried out in communist Germany.

He said he was the target of those who wanted to carry out a political coup by moralists.