Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has promised to give a full rebuttal to judges who said his lawyer had lied in court to protect him, BBC reported.
Mr Berlusconi said he would respond in parliament to the "outrageous verdict", but did not say when.
His British tax lawyer David Mills was found guilty in February of taking a £400,000 bribe from Mr Berlusconi.
Explaining their verdict on Tuesday, the judges said he lied either to help the PM dodge charges or keep profits.
"The artificial, opaque and sophisticated way in which the money was transferred to Mills' accounts itself indicates the illegality of the whole operation," the judges wrote.
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