Cayman Islands featured in new Parmalat web game

Friday, February 13, 2004

MILAN, Italy: Tired of following the twists and turns in Parmalat's fall from grace? Relief is at hand in the form of a computer game based on the Italian dairy group's accounting scandal. 

Reuters reports that Italian web site www.bastardidentro.com/index/115 has created a new version of the classic "Pacman" game but instead of a round head gulping up dots, players control the face of Parmalat's founder Calisto Tanzi munching money through a maze. 

"Parman" is chased by four policemen, who swarm out of an island paradise, a reference to the Cayman Islands where a fake bank account first exposed a huge hole in Parmalat's accounts in December. 

As the "Parman" runs through the labyrinth gobbling up money, he can also increase his speed by swallowing cartons of milk. 

But get caught three times by the police, and you are slammed into Milan's San Vittore jail, where Tanzi was held for more than a month on suspicion of fraud before being transferred to another prison in Parma on Tuesday. 

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