Pirelli chairman sentenced to jail for industrial espionage

Pirelli chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera has been sentenced to jail for twenty months. The Financial Times reports that a Milan court found him guilty, but suspended his jail sentence, in an industrial espionage case involving Telecom Italia. Provera, who denies the charges, was also ordered to pay € 900 000, ”I will appeal, [I am] convinced that [...]

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