Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a 2006 case against four Google Inc executives over a video on the Internet provider’s Italian-language site, the Wall Street Journal said.

Prosecutors are expected in September to request that the executives stand trial on charges of defamation and violation of privacy for allegedly failing adequately to control the content of the site, the paper cited people close to the probe as saying…The men were put under investigation not for their direct role in the posting of the material in question but because they had positions of authority over the operations involved, the people familiar with the probe told the paper…The video shows a disabled teen taunted by peers.