“Carbon tax” scam: threatened with incarceration, Marco Mouly, nicknamed “the king of scams”, announces he is going on the run

Europe 1 with AFP 1:54 p.m., March 9, 2024, modified at 2:01 p.m., March 9, 2024

The sentencing judge on Friday revoked the suspended sentence enjoyed by Marco Mouly, one of the figures in the giant VAT scam on the carbon market, who could therefore soon be incarcerated.

In a decision revealed by

and of which AFP was aware, the judge considered that several obligations set for this protagonist of the "scam of the century" at the time of one of his convictions, pronounced in 2019, do not had not been respected.

Concerning that of working, the person concerned held "a fictitious job" as a community manager, according to the judge, and "he provided the justice system with false pay slips, against the backdrop of a well-oiled organization".

The judge orders the partial revocation of the three-year prison sentence for 18 months

At the same time, he indicated during an audition that he was working on a second book and had landed a leading role in a film which should be shot soon.

Marco Mouly, known as "Marco the Elegant", also did not pay the fine in full, the judge noting a balance of 11,569 euros on a fine of 15,000 euros.

He also owes very large sums in connection with his other convictions, all cases combined, it is noted in the decision.

Consequently, the judge orders the partial revocation for 18 months of the three-year prison sentence pronounced in April 2019 by the Paris Court of Appeal for fraud carried out by an organized gang during 1998 and 1999. This sentence of three years in prison was suspended for a period of three years.

The expiration date of the probation period was January 20, 2024.

His lawyer is appealing this decision

His lawyer, Me Philippe Ohayon, told AFP that he had appealed this decision, which he said was "unfair, illegal and unjust".

“Could the prosecution have the elegance to let the court of appeal have the last word in this matter rather than creating a climate of terror for the payment of a fine?” he declared. .

At the end of June 2017, Marco Mouly, as well as Arnaud Mimran, had already been sentenced on appeal to eight years of imprisonment and a fine of one million euros in the so-called "carbon tax" affair, a vast VAT fraud. on the market for rights to pollute.

With the other main defendants in the case, they were ordered to pay 283 million euros in damages to the State.

Marco Mouly, born in May 1965, was placed on semi-release in April 2020.

After this court decision, Marco Mouly announced to

 that he was going on the run.

"I'm angry with society. I'm holding my own and here I am being brought up with a case from 1998! What do you want me to do? Well yeah, I'm defying the police...", a- he said to our colleagues.