Calisto Tanzi

Businessperson, Organization founder

1938 –

37

Who is Calisto Tanzi?

Calisto Tanzi is an Italian businessman notorious for embezzling an estimated eight-hundred million euros from Italian company Parmalat, founded by him, resulting in a great loss for the company. Tanzi was the founder of Parmalat and its CEO, at the time. Tanzi 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.

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Born
Nov 17, 1938
Collecchio
Nationality
  • Italy
Profession
Employment
  • Parmalat

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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