Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been handed a four-year sentence after being convicted of tax fraud by a Milan court.
Berlusconi has the right to appeal the ruling twice more before the sentence becomes definitive and will not be jailed unless the final appeal is upheld.
Prosecutors had asked for a jail sentence of three years and eight months.
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