Pirelli chief Marco Tronchetti
Provera was acquitted of receiving stolen goods in the so-called
Kroll case in Milan Thursday. A Milan appeals court said no
crime had been committed, in the second appeal in the case. The
trial took place after the supreme Court of Cassation quashed an
earlier acquittal. Tronchetti Provera was first acquitted in
June 2015 of charges of receiving stolen goods in a case where
the Kroll investigative agency was a victim of hacking.
The Pirelli CEO and executive vice 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.
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