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.
Published on 12/11/2024 15:23
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Marco Mouly, figure in the giant carbon tax scam, was sentenced in his absence, Tuesday November 12 in Paris, to three years in prison for having organized his insolvency in order not to repay his legal debts. 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.
These new offenses, committed in a state of legal recidivism, are proof that it “clearly didn’t learn the lessons” of his previous convictions, declared the president, to justify the issuance of an arrest warrant against the accused, who was absent during the hearing. 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, The run (2022), and of having concealed income as part of an influencer contract.
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 corporate property.
The court pointed out the “deception” put in place by the defendant “harm to society as a whole”highlighting a “particular ingenuity” of its operating mode and the creation of a fictitious head office “in order to deceive” the integration and probation services of the prisoner who followed him. On September 25, the prosecution requested four years in prison against him as well as a permanent ban from managing a company.
At the end of June 2017, Mardoché 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 VAT fraud on the rights market. to pollute. He was also sentenced jointly with the other co-defendants to pay a fine of more than 283 million euros to the French state.
