France's richest man ends Belgian move after tax furore

PARIS (Reuters) - Bernard Arnault, France's richest man, has abandoned attempts to obtain Belgian nationality and will keep paying tax in his native country after months of speculation that he, like movie star Gerard Depardieu, wanted to dodge a 75-percent supertax.

The head of the LVMH luxury goods empire, whose citizenship request looked doomed, announced his decision in a newspaper interview, saying he had never intended to flee the taxman.