Known for his numerous scams, Marco Mouly was placed in police custody in the premises of the Economic Crime Repression Brigade. He is suspected of having organized his insolvency, reported BFMTV And The Parisian. Convicted and incarcerated for a VAT fraud in the early 2000s, Marco Mouly was taken from his cell at La Santé prison on Monday, where he has been incarcerated since March after the partial revocation of his suspended sentence.
Last March, a sentencing judge revoked his suspended sentence, finding that Marco Mouly did not respect the conditions, namely carrying out a professional activity, submitting to a psychological assessment and paying a tax fine of 15,000 euros. His incarceration also followed his comments. He would have in fact announced his desire to go on the run and then surrender to justice.
Small family arrangements
According to information from BFMTV, investigators discovered that Marco Mouly had arranged so that it was his daughter, Cindy, and not him, who received most of the copyright for his autobiographical book entitled The mare (published by Harpers Collins in 2022) although she had only written a short preface. At the beginning of June, the police had already placed his daughter and her mother in police custody.
The investigators’ suspicions relate in particular to the lifestyle of this man, originally from the Belleville district of Paris. Before his incarceration, he was also said to have been reluctant to pay his fines and damages, due to lack of money. Investigators are also interested in the conditions under which he was hired as a “community manager”. According to the investigation, he did not receive a salary for this work but would have used the company’s bank card to buy clothes.
The “king of scam”
Nicknamed the “king of scams”, this man is best known for being part of a team which organized a carbon quota scam involving more than 250 million euros in the early 2000s. Marco Mouly was also sentenced, in April 2019, by the Paris Court of Appeal to a three-year sentence, including 18 months suspended.
More information on the carbon tax fraud case
This judgment concerned a 25-year-old case of fraud against the Danish state. This professional scammer became widely known thanks to the broadcast of a documentary on Netflix and the series Of money and blood produced by Canal+.