Flamboyant French businessman and former cabinet minister Bernard Tapie on Monday learned from lawyers he has lost his final appeal against handing back a multimillion euro government payout surrounding his 1993 sale of Adidas sportswear.
The former chairman of Marseille football club received 404 million euros ($450 million) in 2008 when a government arbitration panel found he had been the victim of fraud when he sold Adidas, ruling the buyers had undervalued the brand.