MOSCOW, May 26 (AFP) - Peter Llewellyn, a British millionaire who offered 100 million dollars for a spin in August on the Russian space station Mir, will not have his day in space, the City of Stars cosmonaut training center announced Wednesday. "He's a profiteer with whom it's better to not have contact," spokesman Andrei Maiboroda told journalists. Maiboroda also said that no contracts had ever been signed with Llewellyn, 51, who was supposed to have begun training for the mission from May 14. Officials gave no explanation for the falling out with Llewellyn. But Russian media had cast doubt on Llewellyn's intentions following reports that the millionaire had a criminal record and was arrested in 1997 for improper business practices. Media reports also nicknamed him the "garbage king" when they learned he was owner of a garbage processing company, Microlife, based in the US. "These accusations certainly did have an effect on negotiations," said spokesman for the Mir space station Sergei Gorbunov. Llewellyn also served as vice president of RKK Energiya, the company which operates Mir. Llewellyn had planned to subcontract the company to build some of his waste-treatment facilities. The Russian authorities had planned to bring down the 13-year-old space station this summer, when state funding will dry up. Funding instead will be switched into developing the 30 percent of the International space station, scheduled to host its first crew in January 2000. Llewellyn's generous offer would have prolonged Mir's life in orbit by several months. The Russian Space Agency announced Wednesday, however, that after August Mir could remain in space unmanned. Mir will likely remain in space until February, said agency director Boris Ostrumov from Cape Canaveral, Florida, where he was attending the launch of space shuttle Discovery.  