Italy's media tycoon and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was briefly sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud connected to his Mediaset empire and banned from holding public office for five years by a Milan court.
But the court immediately cut the sentence to one year under an amnesty law approved by the then center-left government in 2006 to reduce the overcrowding of Italian prisons.
Berlusconi condemned as "unreal" his tax fraud conviction and said it was the result of "politicised" judges who have made Italy unlivable and no longer a democracy.
Berlusconi spoke to his Mediaset television station after a Milan court convicted him of tax fraud concerning the purchase of rights to broadcast U.S. movies on his private TV networks. He was sentenced to four years in prison though he remains free until all appeals are exhausted.
Read more: Silvio Berlusconi given four years' jail for tax fraud, cut to one year | The Australian
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