Calisto Tanzi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Calisto Tanzi

Italian fraudster

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1938

Place of Birth: Collecchio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Profession: businessperson, entrepreneur, chief executive officer

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Calisto Tanzi (born 17 November 1938 in Collecchio) is an Italian businessman.
He founded Parmalat in 1961, after dropping out of college.
Parmalat collapsed in 2003 with a 14bn euro ($20bn; £13bn) 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.