Parmalat founder gets 10 years' prison for market rigging
Calisto Tanzi was convicted of market-rigging, false accounting and obstructing market oversight
March 2008
Former Parmalat chief goes on trial for fraud
Europe's biggest ever fraud trial under way with 56 accused, nine judges and possibility of more than 30,000 witnesses
September 2005
Parmalat trial gets under way
One of Europe's biggest fraud trials started today in Italy as Calisto Tanzi appeared in Milan nearly two years after the collapse of Parmalat, the dairy giant he founded.
June 2005
Parmalat fraudsters to avoid prison
Plea bargaining keeps 11 out of jail but gives prosecutors ammunition to go after foreign and Italian banks.
October 2004
Key players in the Parmalat scandal
Parmalat
Protesters vent anger at Parmalat hearing
Two to be tried over Parmalat
Parmalat chiefs await their fate
Two face trial over Parmalat
August 2004
Parmalat turns legal guns on Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank yesterday became the latest target in Parmalat's campaign to recover money from institutions which arranged debt deals for the Italian food group in the year before its insolvency.
May 2004
Prosecutors want trial for 32 over Parmalat scandal
Italian prosecutors today urged a judge to put the founder of the Parmalat food group, and 31 other executives and financial institutions, on trial for their role in one of Europe's biggest financial scandals.
March 2004
Fast track trial route blocked
Judge rejects bid for fast-track Parmalat trial
29 named in Parmalat case
Brussels seeks to tighten audit rules
February 2004
Police net widens on Parmalat family
Italian police today arrested the son and a daughter of Calisto Tanzi, the disgraced founder of Parmalat, the dairy group at the heart of one of Europe's biggest ever frauds.
January 2004
World dispatch
Berlusconi needs more than cosmetic surgery
January 29: Facing a fractious coalition, public discontent and corporate scandal, Il Cavaliere's grip on Italy is looking shaky, writes Sophie Arie.
Parmalat admits real debt is 14bn euros
The true scale of the Parmalat fraud became clearer yesterday as the company announced that its real debts last year were over €14bn (£10bn), almost eight times more than the bankrupt company's former executives had admitted.
Parmalat debt is more than €14bn
Parmalat's net debt at the end of September stood at €14.3bn, much more than had been previously stated, a new audit of the stricken Italian dairy group showed today.