PARIS - France's highest court yesterday upheld an eight-month jail term against the bankrupt tycoon, Bernard Tapie, for football match rigging, condemning him to stay behind bars where he had gone to await the ruling.
The Cour de Cassation ruling rejected an appeal by Tapie against the sentence handed down by a lower court in November 1995, over a football 1993 match-fixing scandal. The flamboyant former boss of Olympique Marseille football club has never been jailed despite several convictions for fraud, corruption, tax evasion and financial mismanagement.