Word: milan
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...FRANCESCO GRECO, Milan magistrate
...that the company had promised just three months earlier that it wouldn't be issuing new debt. Bank of America passed that information on to Sala, now working at Parmalat. "Many investors were puzzled," the message warned. Sala has been charged with market manipulation, along with two other former Milan-based Bank of America execs. One of them, Antonio Luzi, recounted to magistrates how Sala had given him a total of $900,000 on three separate occasions for helping him set up the Brazilian refinancing. Luzi met him at a prearranged spot in the Swiss town of Lugano, handed...
...million on a station called Odeon TV that it hoped to build into Italy's third major network, but which collapsed after three years. To stave off bankruptcy, Tanzi engineered a so-called reverse merger, under which it sold itself to a dormant holding company already listed on the Milan stock exchange. The combined firm then raised about €150 million from outside investors. That enabled Parmalat to go public in 1990, and plug some of the gaps in its accounts; at the time it had a market value of around €300 million. But as early as 1993, Parmalat...
...Parmalat expanded globally in the '90s, so did its network of bankers and financial advisers. Ferraris was one of them. Before joining Parmalat in 1997 as an executive in Canada and Australia, he worked for seven years at Citigroup in Milan - and made regular sales calls on Tonna. "There was big competition" for Parmalat business, Ferraris says. At the time, U.S., British and other European investment banks were piling into Italy trying to grab local business, and Tonna played hard to get. "You needed to come up with a product that really interested them," Ferraris recalls. For Citigroup, Ferraris scored...
...Traveling in the Gulfstream corporate jet with Lewis was Luca Sala, a managing director of Bank of America in Milan who worked closely on some of the bank's transactions for Parmalat. Less than a month later, the bank fired him for allegedly fiddling his expenses, so he immediately took a new job - with Parmalat. Ferraris says he needed Sala's help to understand a complex $400 million in financing provided by big institutional investors in the U.S. Sala, 40, has since confessed to magistrates that he received more than €20 million in commissions from Parmalat for helping...