David Mills faces sentencing

By Nick Pisa in Rome Published: 4:49PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

Mr Mills pronounced he was deeply unhappy with the preference of the appeals justice Photo: REUTERS

Company counsel David Mills, 65, was convicted last year of usurpation a �350,000 cheat in lapse for giving enlightened justification at dual crime trials involving the Italian budding minister.

Four months ago, the strange judgment of 4 and a half years jail was inspected by an interest justice and right away the Supreme Court will give the last and decisive ruling.

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Mr Mills was one of Berlusconi"s consultants on offshore taxation havens and the income is pronounced to have been used to compensate off a debt on a north London skill owned by the couple.

Tessa Jowell subsequently done transparent that she knew zero of the transaction.

If the Supreme Court upholds the judgment afterwards 3 years will automatically be slashed from the judgment as there is right away an freedom on jail sentences in Italy. Prison sentences of less than dual years are customarily converted to village service.

However it leaves Mr Mills in the on all sides of carrying to do eighteen months village use that for an Italian proprietor would be true brazen but as he is vital abroad creates logistical problems.

A source close to the prosecutor"s bureau in Milan that creatively brought the box said: "It"s an surprising incident as we are traffic with a British adult proprietor in Britain.

"If he was Italian and in Italy afterwards he would be dealt with by the amicable services and he would do village use in Italy but as he lives abroad it a formidable one.

"There is the probability I suspect of him being placed in the caring of counterparts in Britain but it is a incident we have never dealt with before.

"If the judgment is inspected afterwards we will ask that he lift out eighteen months village use and afterwards we will have to work out where he will do that, Britain or Italy."

The source combined that it was "highly unlikely" that they would ask Mr Mills be extradited raising the subject of because worry receiving the box to a conference that began 4 years ago.

Mr Mills, who has not been to any of the hearings and will not be in justice tomorrow, refused to order out carrying out the judgment if convicted and said: "I"m not observant anything about this on the telephone.

"I will not be at the hearing. I will issue a little significant element on Thursday by approach of background. I am not deliberating what will occur if it comes down to a custodial sentence."

Yesterday Federico Cecconi, Mr Mills Italian lawyer, said: "I don"t unequivocally wish to lure predestine by observant anything forward of the decision. This is a formidable conference and I don"t wish to supplement to it with speculation.

"I will bottom the preference on what the justice manners but I am carefree that they will boot the case."

Judges at the justice in Rome will bottom their preference not on the contribution of the box but on points of law privately when the cheat is pronounced to have been paid.

If they confirm it was paid in 1998 afterwards the box will be thrown out as it has upheld a ten year time extent for self-assurance however if they confirm it was paid in 2000, as prosecutors demand afterwards it will stand.

Mr Berlusconi was released from the strange conference as he had introduced an shield law but this was ruled unconstitutional last Oct and he is right away behind on trial.

However the box has been dangling tentative the result of the Supreme Court statute and it is scheduled to resume on Friday. Both he and Mr Mills repudiate any wrong doing.