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Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 1 year in jail for illegal wiretaps
Updated On: 07 March, 2013 07:00 PM IST | | AFP
An Italian court has sentenced ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to one year in jail over the publication by his newspaper of a transcript of a leaked wiretap connected to a banking scandal in 2006.
An Italian court on Thursday sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to a year in prison over the publication of leaked transcripts from a police wiretap in a newspaper that he owns.
Berlusconi, who faces two more verdicts this month for tax fraud and having sex with an underage prostitute, can appeal the conviction which would suspend the sentence under Italian law.
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