Wine fraudster made £38m – then skipped bail saying his mum was poorly

A wine fraudster who fled the UK days before he was convicted of running huge tax fiddle had made more than £38m, a court heard. Livio Mazzarello, 62, 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 fraudulent evasion of duty, fraudulent evasion of VAT and money laundering, and jailed for 14 years in his absence…