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There is a court that combine to almost daily deadline invests bright ears of the Democratic Party. Yesterday was the turn of a name which, although eclissatosi a lot ‘with renzismo, up to Veltroni’s time meant a lot. Renato Soru, founder of Tiscali, today MEP and former president of Sardinia.
The single judge of the Tribunale di Cagliari in the first instance sentenced him to three years in prison for tax evasion. According to the indictment, a company based in London, the Andalas, attributable to the same Soru, it would have given a loan of 27 million euro to finance Tiscali. Which, according to the reconstructions, he later returned some of the debt also paying interest. But the amount would not have been declared to the tax authorities. It all started from a Annozero service in 2009. This petty chronicle. The addition of the facial image understandably stunned Soru in front of cameras and notebooks, judicial outside the courtroom, chanting that “I expected to be acquitted,” is “a serious and important time of my life ‘, with’ admission to want to “spend some ‘alone’ at home to reflect. The judge also approved “the disqualification from office of legal persons and companies, disqualification from representation and assistance in tax matters, and the inability to negotiate with the government ‘for two years.
A catastrophe for a business man like him. And while echoing in the background the anathemas of Grillo ( “The Epic of the Democratic Party continues immoral”), filter the words of his lawyer on goods and seized part of the salary, they scroll all the golden years of the political and business career of Renato Soru that yesterday, immediately resigned as Democratic Party Secretary of Sardinia. A career, her, forged by a certain character impetuously. He expressed already by that look serious, the expression of the Sardinians deeper. Born in a small country in the Middle Campidano, Sanluri, Father secretary of school and mother merchant, began excellent studies (Bocconi), then interrupted by the death of his father, resumed and completed.
The collaboration with the entrepreneur Nicola Grauso introduced him to the pioneering web, which will take him in the mid-90s, to found Tiscali, one of the first Italian provider. Which roots precisely in Sardinia. A happy paradox: the earth has always suffers from isolation now become a driving force for a new connection to the world. Tiscali, which historically have fluctuating fortunes, grows and the threshold of the new millennium goes public. Soru, meanwhile, begins the route of approach to politics, the DS in particular. He founded his own movement, “Sardinia project”, in the constellation of regional left. In 2004 the jump. From corporate captain he is running for president of the region, and wins unseating the former golden boy of Berlusconi, Mauro Pili. From there, it begins the five-year will be full of controversy because of some choices that triggered a clash over the stretch of sea separating Sardinia from the Continent. As the “luxury tax” on yachts, private planes, Villon by the sea, which made hoist dozens of illustrious holidaymakers (including Flavio Briatore) and then was rejected by the European Court; or the ban on building within two kilometers from the sea. And there was, in those years, the case Saatchi & amp; Saatchi, the marketing juggernaut that Soru CONTRACT advertising Region. The company then subcontracted part assignment to a consortium of Sardinian companies in which names appeared related to Tiscali. This gave rise to an investigation, a trial, but Soru came out completely clean.
The peak of notoriety, for him, though it was at the beginning of 2009. He had resigned from the presidency of the region, a few months after the natural expiration for a law not approved in its entirety. And he found himself, as a challenger, Ugo Cappellacci, a young accountant who had followed certain tax matters of Berlusconi. Which he fell directly in the field, at the height of his popularity as prime minister, and every Friday evening flew to Sardinia to spend a weekend of rallies and events to support its candidate. The challenge, of course, became between Soru and Berlusconi. And the patron of Tiscali was shown on the national stage. And not only. In a long-portrait, Le Monde called him “the Italian Bill Gates ‘, from’ mobile look like that of a bird.” And indeed, someone ventured that if we had done, he could be the next candidate for prime minister. By now, the name of Soru was perfectly anchored to the left. He had become, for a year, the Unity editor and enjoyed the support of Veltroni. At the time of taking the pressure on the trampoline, however, he was knocked out. The Sardinians, who preferred Cappellacci- Berlusconi. A story quite a bit ‘sad, then. Yesterday, on the political side, has had the lowest point.
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