£46m wine fraudster jailed for 14 years, skips bail – serves four

A wine fraudster who fled the UK days before he was convicted of running a £46.5m tax scam is back on the streets after serving just four years in an Italian prison. Livio Mazzarello, 61, skipped bail during his Old Bailey trial after sending an email addressed to ‘the most illustrious judge’ claiming he needed to go to Italy to see his mother. Mazzarello was found guilty of one count of fraudulent evasion of of VAT and jailed for 14…