ROME – Italian officials questioned the detained former CE of Parmalat again yesterday, a day after authorities in New York searched the office of an attorney for the bankrupt Italian food and dairy giant.
The attorney, Gianpaolo Zini, is also under arrest in Milan in connection with the investigation into the collapse of Parmalat, whose balance sheets may be more than US$10 billion in the hole. Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi is being detained for suspected fraud with five executives of the Italian firm and two of its auditors in one of Europe’s biggest corporate scandals.”We’ve heard that in New York they have some useful documents that they got from searching the office and residence of Zini,” an Italian judicial official involved in the case said at the weekend.Giovanni Bonici, head of Parmalat’s Venezuelan operations, who is still at large despite a warrant of arrest, said he was willing to return to Italy for questi
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