A new legal twist for Marco Mouly. The one who is nicknamed “the king of scams”, was in police custody in the premises of the Brigade for the Repression of Economic Delinquency (BRDE) this Monday, June 17, as part of a preliminary investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office, according to information from BFMTV confirmed by The Parisian.
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In question ? While Marco Mouly was convicted of a “carbon tax scam”, to the tune of 283 million euros, the man is suspected of having orchestrated his insolvency in order not to repay his debts with the French state.
The lifestyle of the crook in question
According to BFMTV the 59-year-old crook, who has been incarcerated since March 2024, after having turned himself in to court for “ don’t go on the run” , would have organized in particular so that most of the copyright for his book “La cavale” goes to his daughter Cindy, who only wrote a short preface to the work. At the beginning of June, the latter had already been placed in police custody with her mother.
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Another fact which challenged the investigators: Marco Mouly’s lifestyle before his incarceration when he claimed not to be able to repay his fines, due to lack of money. The man who had been hired as a community manager by a company did not receive a salary for this activity.
But he allegedly bought clothes with the company’s bank card, reports BFMTV. Last question mark from the police: Marco Mouly’s rental of a beautiful apartment in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
In 2017, Marco Mouly was sentenced on appeal to eight years’ imprisonment and a fine of one million euros in the so-called “carbon tax” affair, a vast VAT fraud on the market for pollution rights. He was imprisoned again in mid-May after the partial revocation of his suspended sentence, pronounced in another case.
