French tycoon Bernard Tapie dies aged 78 | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Bernard Tapie, the French business magnate, actor and politician whose swashbuckling career earned him millions of fans despite a series of legal convictions, died aged 78 on Sunday after a four-year fight with stomach cancer.

“Dominique Tapie and his family have the immense sadness to announce the death of her husband and their father, Bernard Tapie, this Sunday,” they said in a statement to La Provence newspaper in Marseille, in which Tapie was a majority stakeholder.

“He’s what you used to call a prole who succeeded in climbing the entire social ladder at a time when working your way up wasn’t so easy,” said Ludovic, a 23-year-old fan. He guided Marseille to five successive league triumphs and the 1993 Champions League title. But charges of match-fixing tainted the team’s Champions League victory — the only time a French club has won the trophy.

He also dabbled in politics, becoming urban affairs minister in the Socialist government of Francois Mitterrand in the 1990s — though only for two months. He was also found guilty in a series of cases for corruption, tax fraud and misuse of corporate assets A court later found him and five others guilty of fraud and ordered Tapie to repay the money, a decision he appealed.

 

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