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Marco Mouly, figure in the “carbon tax” scam, is released from prison

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Marco Mouly, figure in the “carbon tax” scam, is released from prison

Marco Mouly, figure of the gigantic “carbon tax” fraud, detained since March after the partial revocation of a 2019 sentence, was released on November 2, Agence France-Presse learned on Friday, November 8 through from a judicial source.

The 59-year-old man was released from custody on Saturday. “after the ruling of the sentencing chamber of October 29”specified this same source, confirming information from Parisian.

Mardoché Mouly, known as Marco Mouly, was sentenced in 2019 to three years in prison, accompanied in particular by the obligation to prove employment or training. By failing to abide by the conditions of his suspended parole, his suspended prison sentence was partially revoked.

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Great VAT fraud

In another case, “Marco the Elegant” appeared on September 25 in Paris, tried for fraud and fraudulent organization of his insolvency. He is accused, in particular, of having reduced his royalties in publishing contracts, or even of hiding income within the framework of an influencer contract.

The prosecution requested four years in prison and a definitive ban on managing a company, stating that he would have voluntarily avoided obtaining “attachable income”preventing the payment of their legal debts. The Paris criminal court will hand down the sentence on Tuesday.

At the end of June 2017, Marco Mouly was sentenced on appeal to eight years in prison and one million euros in damages in the case of the so-called “carbon tax”, a huge VAT fraud on the market of the rights to pollute. He was also sentenced along with the other defendants to pay a fine of more than 283 million euros to the French State.

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