Bernard Tapie Trial - Paris
A magistrate is seen near the case's files in the hearing room of the trial of French businessman Bernard Tapie for having defrauding French state of nearly half a billion euros with a massive 2008 arbitration award, at the Paris courthouse on May 10, 2021.Bernard Tapie, a 76-year-old former minister who rose from humble beginnings to build up a sporting and media empire that once included the Olympique de Marseille (OM) football club, is one of six people on trial in the latest chapter of a two-decade legal saga that has ensnared a slew of senior officials, including ex-president. It centres on a payment of 404 million euros ($454 million) awarded to Tapie by an arbitration panel to settle a dispute over the state's sale of Adidas, the German sporting goods company which Tapie briefly owned. Photo by Raphael Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA000731358
- Registered date
- 2021/5/10 00:00:00
- Credit
- Lafargue Raphael/ABACA / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Lafargue Raphael/ABACA
- Media size
- 5472 × 3648 pixel
- Deployment size
- 2.90(MB)*
- Special instruction
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Germany, France OUT
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