Renzi's parents convicted for issuing false invoices

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 24 - A Florence court on Wednesday handed down sentences of three years, two months and 15 days for Tiziano Renzi and Laura Bovoli, the parents of ex-premier, former centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader and now head of the centrist Italia Viva (IV) party, Matteo Renzi, in a false invoices case. The court also acquitted Renzi and Bovoli of fraudulent brankruptcy charges for the cooperatives Delivery Service Italia and Europe Service.
    The ex-premier's sister, Matilde Renzi, was also acquitted in the trial that stemmed from the bankruptcy of commercial service cooperatives Marmodiv, Delivery Service and Europe Service, connected to Eventi 6 Srl owned by Renzi's parents. The couple was accused of using the cooperatives, of which they were allegedly de facto administrators, to boost the turnover of the family company, the Eventi 6, subsequently leading them to bankruptcy and omitting to pay taxes - charges denied by the couple. (ANSA).