6. Renato Soru
Renato Soru (born 6 August 1957) is an Italian entrepreneur, the founder of the internet service company Tiscali, based in Cagliari. Forbes listed him as one of the world’s richest people, with a net worth of over $4 billion (US) as of September 2001.
On 20 May 2008 Soru bought the left-wing newspaper l’Unità .
May 5, 2016 he was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion that amounted to about 2.6 million euro and was connected to a loan made by the company Andalas Ldt to Tiscali. The sentence was reversed by the Italian court of appeal on May 8, 2017. Out of 5 counts, Soru was cleared from 3 “because the fact is not a crime” and 2 “because the fact did not happen”