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Parmalat's Fraud

Bipul Suman
Jaipuria Institute of Management Jaipur

Gargi Shukla
R.A. Poddar Institute of Management
CurrentCurrent
ScandalsScandals
o Enron

o Parmalat – Europe’s Enron (2003)

o Satyam – India’s Enron (2008)

o Madoff – World’s largest Ponzi Scheme

o + 35 other scandals so far totaling $37 Billion


Company History
• 1961
Calisto Tanzi, a 22-year old college dropout, opened a small
pasteurization plant in Parma, Italy.

• 1980
Grown into a multinational corporation diversifying into milk,
dairy, beverage, bakery and other product lines.

• 1990
listed on the Milan stock exchange in, and expanding further
in the 1990s.
Principal Divisions
o Bakery

o Fresh Foods

o Milk

o Vegetables.
Business of Parmalat
Type Public
Founded 1961
Founder(s) Calisto Tanzi
Headquarters Collecchio, Italy
Key people Raffaele Picella (Chairman of the
board), Enrico Bondi (CEO)

Industry Food processing


Products Milk and dairy products, fruit juice, tea
Revenue €3.940 billion (2008)
Operating income ▲ €738.8 million (2008)
Profit ▲ €673.1 million (2008)
Employees 14,170 (2008)
Website http://www.parmalat.com/
Other Social investments undertaken
where [ Losses Incurred]

o GermanFormula 1

o Football Club
Parmalat across the world
•Italy •Brazil
•Portugal •Chile
•Romania •China
•Russia •Dominican Republic
•Australia •Hungary
•Botswana •Mexico
•Canada •Spain
•Colombia •United States of
•Cuba America
•Ecuador •Uruguay
The Founder of Parmalat

Calisto Tanzi
People involved in the Scam

o Former Chief Financial


Officers(CFO)
Luciano Del Soldato &
Fausto Tonna
Arrest of Calisto Tanzi
The case of Parmalat
1997
o Parmalat jumped into financial markets
o Financing several companies by acquisitions with debt.

2001
o New divisions producing losses.
o Losses shifted to the use of derivatives.

2003
o CFO, FautoTonna announced a new €500 million bond issue.
o This annoncement of bond issue is surprise for market & CEO (Tanzi)
o CFO(Tonna)was fired & replaced by New CEO Alberto Ferrari.
Statements by New CFO

o In an interview to Time magazine CFO surprise to discovered.

o He still didn't have access to some of the corporate books.

o He began making some inquiries and began to suspect that

o company's total debt >double that on the balance sheet.


Nov 2003
o Transaction with Mutual Fund Epicurum

o And another Cayman-based company linked to Parmalat

o Both of this transaction shown company some problem with its balance

o CFO Ferraris resigned

o Replaced by Del Soldato

December 2003
o Unable to get cash from Epicuram Fund for
 Payment of debts and also
 To make bond payment.

o The CFO Del Soldato resigned

o Worked for less than 1 month


Finally
o Bank of America released a document showing €3.95 billion in bank
account as a forgery.

o CEO Tanzi resigned

o Company officially went bankrupt

o PM Silvio Berlusconi initiated & appointed Enrico Bondi was called to


help the company

o Bondi administer companiy’s rescue


Who are under investigation
o Parmalat board members

o Internal auditors

o Parmalat executives

o Deloitte & Touche

o Grant Thornton

o Bank of America

o Lawyer Bank of America's Italian unit

o Deloitte & Touche

o Grant Thornton
Parmalat scam’s impact w.r.t
companies:
o To Revise Company Law Directive on the Statutory Audit
function.

o It will strengthen controls over the audit profession.


o Full group auditor responsibility for consolidated accounts of a
group of companies.

o Obligatory independent audit committees for listed companies.

o Stricter auditor rotation requirements

o Strengthened sanctions
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