The actor had himself been questioned over the affair before investigations into him were dropped in 2014.

However, lawyers Luis Juega Garcia, Hector Diaz-Bastien and Ramon Asesio Bolea have now all been sentenced following a long-running trial in Malaga.

Juega, was given nine years while Diaz-Bastien, the founder of law firm Diaz-Bastien & Truan, and Bolea were each given seven.

The three have also been ordered to repay more than £14 million in unpaid company tax, along with two other offenders including one referred to in the past as the actor’s wife Micheline Roquebrune’s Marbella banker.

Bastien founded the law firm that Sir Sean, 86, used when he sold his Marbella home in 1999, and Bolea and Garcia were partners.

The house was later demolished and more than 70 flats, later sold for an estimated £45 million, were built in its place in defiance of planning regulations restricting development on the site to only five flats.

The deal led to a high-profile investigation dubbed Goldfinger after the 1964 James Bond film in which Sir Sean starred.

Sir Sean was asked questions about his relationships with Andalucian politicians during the Spanish court inquiry into the sale.

However, Miss Roquebrune was ordered to stand trial in November last year for allegedly aiding and abetting a complex operation to defraud the Spanish Treasury.

She has previously dismissed the allegations as “nonsense”.

Pilar Reales, from Luis Juega Garcia and Hector Diaz-Bastien’s company DBA, told Scottish Construction Now: “Within the period established by Spanish law, both lawyers will lodge an appeal at the Spanish Supreme Court regarding this ruling. We are fully convinced of both the innocence and the professional behavior of our lawyers, and we will dedicate every mean available to us to prove that.

“Now we are at the beginning of a new procedural stage that will take place during the following months. The Law Firm, DBA, will continue working as usual, tending to our clients and developing the commercial expansion plans started in the last months.”

A date for the hearing is expected to be set soon.