(REFILING CORRECTED).
Marco Tronchetti Provera has been
acquitted in a Milan appeals court on charges of receiving
stolen goods in a case where the Kroll investigative agency was
a victim of hacking.
The Pirelli president was initially sentenced to one year
and eight months in the case involving Telecom Italia (TI) data
obtained by a team led by former TI security chief Giuliano
Tavaroli which illegally hacked Kroll to get key information
used to snoop on rival firms.
Tronchetti Provera headed Telecom Italia from 2001 to 2006.
Prosecutors said that he was aware of the industrial
espionage.
According to the investigation of prosecutor Alfredo
Robledo, the Kroll files were intercepted by Tavaroli's men, via
a hacking operation, and then supplied to Tronchetti's office.
With the said material, Robledo found, the then TI No.1
reported the spying both to Italian and Brazilian authorities.
According to Robledo, however, Tronchetti Provera was aware
of the "illicit nature" of the files - hence the charge of
recycling, the trial, the first-instance sentence and last
week's acquittal.
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