Robert Louis-Dreyfus was found guilty on appeal this month for money laundering – after 15 unexplained bank transfers were investigated from the 1997-1999 years at OM, the football club from Marseille, of which he is the owner since 1997. RDL received a 10-month suspended sentence and a fine of €200,000 – less than the initial verdict handed out by a lower court in June 2006, which gave him a 3-year suspended sentence and a €375,000 fine. The man who was coaching the OM team during that period, Rolland Courbis, received a two-year prison sentence from the appeals court, down from the initial three and a half years. Louis- Dreyfus, who was chief executive of Adidas-Salomon during 1993-1997, is said to be determined to sell off the OM, now a very successful football club, but has not yet found any bidders.