Marco Moulyfigurehead of the giant “carbon taxwas sentenced in his absence on Tuesday in Paris to three years’ imprisonment, with a warrant for his arrest for organizing his insolvency in order to avoid repaying his legal debts. The 59-year-old, who returned to custody in March following the partial revocation of a suspended sentence dating back to 2019, had been released on November 2. He was found guilty on Tuesday of organizing his insolvency in order to avoid repaying his legal debts.

These new offences, committed in a state of legal recidivism, are proof that he “has clearly not learned his lessons”. of his previous convictions,” said the president, justifying the issuing of an arrest warrant for the defendant, who was absent from the hearing. In this case, he was accused of having undercut his royalties in publishing contracts, mainly for the book he co-authored, “La cavale” (2022) or of having concealed income as part of an influencer contract for the former “the “papess of influence Magali Berdah and her husband Stéphane Teboul.

Guilty of misuse of corporate assets

Marco Mouly was also on trial for having set up a company, SAS I Trade, without any real economic activity. In these proceedings, he was also found guilty of misuse of corporate assets. The court pointed the finger at “deception set up by the defendant at the “to the detriment of society as a whole”underlining a “particular ingenuity” of its modus operandi and the creation of a fictitious head office “in order to deceive” the integration and probation services of the penitentiary that was monitoring him.

On September 25, the public prosecutor’s office requested four years’ imprisonment and a permanent ban on managing a company, stating that Marco Mouly had deliberately avoided obtaining a licence to operate a business. “seizable income”.preventing repayment of his legal debts. At the end of June 2017, Mardoché Mouly, known as Marco Mouly, was sentenced on appeal to eight years’ imprisonment and damages of one million euros in the so-called “carbon taxHe was also sentenced jointly and severally with his co-defendants to pay a fine of more than He was also sentenced jointly and severally with his co-defendants to pay a fine of over 283 million euros to the French State.