page_title: Marcello Dell'Utri
section_title: Escape Attempt and arrest
hierarchical_section_title: Marcello Dell'Utri / Supreme Court Final Conviction (2014) / Escape Attempt and arrest
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context_page_description: Marcello Dell'Utri is a convicted mafia criminal and a former Italian politician and senior advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Formerly Senator in the Italian Senate for The People of Freedom political party, he was also member of the Italian Parliamentary Delegation to the Council of Europe and of the Italian Parliamentary Delegation to the Western European Union. He was appointed artistic director of the now closed Teatro Lirico in Milan by the then mayor Letizia Moratti his appointment has been strongly criticized by art critic and then Head of Culture Department of the Municipality of Milan Vittorio Sgarbi.
  Dell'Utri has been found guilty of tax fraud, false accounting, and complicity in conspiracy with the Sicilian Mafia; the conviction for the last charge has been upheld on 9 May 2014 by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation which sentenced Dell'Utri to seven years in prison. The conviction is final and cannot be further appealed. The third criminal section of Palermo's Appellate Court declared Dell'Utri a fugitive in May 2014, when it was discovered he had fled the country ahead of the final court decision.
context_section_description: On 11 April 2014 the 3rd Criminal Section of the Appellate Court of Palermo, Sicily, issued an arrest warrant for Marcello Dell'Utri at the request of the national anti-mafia investigation department, which said it had obtained information that he might flee ahead of his hearing at Italy's highest court of appeal in Rome on 15 April.
caption: Dell'Utri is located and arrested in Beirut (Lebanon) on 12 April 2014 by a joint operation led by INTERPOL and Lebanese forces.
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