Marco Mouly, figure in the “carbon tax” scam, sentenced to three years in prison and targeted by an arrest warrant

Marco Mouly, figure of the giant fraud at the “carbon tax”was sentenced in his absence, Tuesday November 12, by the Paris judicial court to three years in prison 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 by the court of having organized his insolvency in order not to repay his court debts.

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 Cavale (2022), or even having concealed income as part of an influencer contract for the former “popess of influence” Magali Berdah and her husband, Stéphane Teboul.

“Deception”

Mardoché Mouly, known as Marco Mouly, was also tried for having created a company, SAS I Trade, with no real economic activity. In these proceedings, he was also found guilty of misuse of corporate property. The court noted the “deception” put in place by the defendant “harm to society as a whole”evoking 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 on managing a company, specifying that Mr. Mouly would have voluntarily avoided obtaining “income that can be seized”preventing the repayment of his legal debts.

At the end of June 2017, Mr. Mouly had already been sentenced on appeal to eight years of imprisonment as well as one million euros in damages in the so-called “carbon tax”vast VAT fraud on the market for pollution rights. He was also sentenced jointly with the other co-defendants to pay a fine of more than 283 million euros to the French state.