Silvio Berlusconi the former Prime Minister of Italy, Media Mogul and billionaire has been sentenced to one year in prison in a wire tapping case concluding 7 March in Italy.

The case concerned the publication of leaked transcripts from a police wiretap in a newspaper that he owns officially an allegation of wire tapping and then making public conversations held confidentially in a 2005 banking scandal.

Having just garnered more than 20% in the elections which have left Ital...