ROME (Reuters) - Renato Soru, Italian leftist politician and chairman of multinational telecoms company Tiscali was handed a three year jail sentence for tax evasion on Thursday.
The verdict is a political embarrassment for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi because Soru is the head of Renzi's Democratic Party (PD) in Sardinia and a PD member of the European Parliament.
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