Towards a return to prison. Marco Mouly, figure in the giant “carbon tax” scam, was sentenced in his absence, this Tuesday, November 12, 2024 in Paris, to three years in prison.
During the trial, on September 25, 2024, the prosecution requested 4 years in prison as well as a definitive ban on him from managing a company, specifying that he would have voluntarily avoided obtaining “income that can be seized”preventing the repayment of his legal debts.
Free for ten days
The man nicknamed “the king of scams” – and whose real first name is Mardoché – was found guilty this Tuesday of having organized his insolvency in order not to repay his legal debts, summarizes theAgence France-Presse.
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. The conviction issued this Tuesday is accompanied by an arrest warrant against him because Marco Mouly was not present to read the judgment.
These new offenses, committed in a state of legal recidivism, are proof that it “clearly didn’t learn the lessons” of his previous convictions, the president said.
A book and a company
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, Harper Collins) or even having concealed income as part of an influencer contract for 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.
A huge scam
At the end of June 2017, 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 VAT fraud on the market. rights 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.
