Calisto Tanzi

Calisto Tanzi (17 November 1938 – 1 January 2022) was an Italian convicted businessman. He founded Parmalat in 1961. The company went bankrupt in 2003. In 2008, Tanzi was found to have embezzled about 800 million euros from the company, and went to jail for fraud. In December 2011, Tanzi was sentenced another nine years and two months for the Parmatour bankruptcy. He was born in Collecchio, Italy. He was the owner of Parma Calcio from 1989 until 2003.
Tanzi died on 1 January 2022 in Parma, Italy from a lung infection at the age of 83.