( CNN ) -- Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is to serve one year of community service at a nursing home for his conviction on tax fraud , a Milan court ruled on Tuesday . The 77-year old billionaire tycoon must visit a center for the elderly near his hometown , Milan , at least once a week for a minimum four hours . He will start the sentence `` in coming days , '' a member of his legal team told CNN . The center-right politician was convicted of charges related to a vast tax fraud conspiracy at his Mediaset television empire . He will be working in a home run by the Sacred Family Foundation , Fondazione Sacra Famiglia , in Cesano Boscone outside Milan . Travel restrictions . The lawyers said the former premier was also subject to limitations on his movements . This means he will not -- except with specific authorization -- be able to leave the northern Lombardy region , where he has his principal home , but is allowed to go to Rome from Tuesday to Thursday . He has to be back in Lombardy by 11 p.m. Thursday . Berlusconi , who served on and off as prime minister between 1994 and 2011 , has dominated the lively Italian political scene for the past two decades . He received a sentence of four years for tax fraud . The sentence was commuted to a year . It was not immediately clear from the court ruling whether Berlusconi would be able to campaign for his Forza Italia party ahead of European Parliament elections next month . Berlusconi says he is innocent and that he has been persecuted by leftist magistrates . Editors ' Note : This article has been edited to remove plagiarized content after CNN discovered multiple instances of plagiarism by Marie-Louise Gumuchian , a former CNN news editor .
Italian court rules Silvio Berlusconi must carry out one year of community service . The former premier must spend 11 p.m. per week at a nursing home in Lombardy . The billionaire tycoon was convicted of charges relating to tax fraud . Berlusconi has dominated Italian political scene for one year .