Scammer Calisto Tanzi
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Name: | Calisto Tanzi |
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Born: | 1938 |
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Age: | 83 |
Country: | Italian |
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Criminal / Fraud / Scam Charges: | Fraud,fraudulent bankruptcy,criminal association |
Criminal / Fraud / Scam Penalty: | Eight years imprisonment (final), 18 years imprisonment (appealed), nine years imprisonment (appealed) |
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Calisto Tanzi (born 17 November 1938 in Collecchio) is a convicted Italian businessman. He founded Parmalat in 1961, after dropping out of college. Parmalat collapsed in 2003 with a 14bn euro hole in its accounts in what remains Europe's biggest bankruptcy. In 2008 Tanzi was found to have embezzled an estimated 800 million euros from the company, and was jailed for fraud.