Having become famous thanks to a Netflix series devoted to the carbon tax scam, Marco Mouly was convicted.
Marco Mouly, figure of the giant “carbon tax” scam, was sentenced in his absence, Tuesday in Paris, to three years in prison and targeted by an arrest warrant for having organized his insolvency.
The 59-year-old man, returned to detention in March following the partial revocation of a suspended sentence dating from 2019, was released on November 2. He was found guilty on Tuesday by the Paris judicial court of having organized his insolvency in order not to repay his legal debts.
These new offenses, committed as a legal repeat offender, are proof that he “has clearly not learned the lessons” from his previous convictions, declared the president, to justify the issuance of an arrest warrant. against the accused, who was absent during the hearing.
A “deception”, according to the court
In this case, he was accused in particular of having reduced his copyright in publishing contracts, mainly for the book of which he was the co-author, “La cavale” (2022) or even of having concealed income as part of an influencer contract for the former “popess of influence” Magali Berdah and her husband Stéphane Teboul. Marco Mouly was also tried for having created a company, SAS I Trade, without any real economic activity. In these proceedings, he was also found guilty of misuse of company property.
The court pointed out the “deception” put in place by the defendant to the “detriment of society as a whole”, highlighting a “particular ingenuity” of his mode of operation and the creation of a fictitious head office “in order to deceive ” the integration and probation services of the prisoner who was following him.
On September 25, the prosecution requested four years in prison against him as well as a definitive ban on managing a company, specifying that Marco Mouly would have voluntarily avoided obtaining “income that could be seized”, preventing the reimbursement of his judicial debts.
At the end of June 2017, Mardoché Mouly, known as Marco Mouly, was sentenced on appeal to eight years’ imprisonment as well as one million euros in damages in the so-called “carbon tax” affair, a vast fraud involving VAT on the market for pollution rights.
He was also ordered jointly with the other co-defendants to pay a fine of more than 283 million euros to the French state.
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