CO2 scam: Marco, the crook in the heart of the trial of the "Casse of the century"

8 watches, 17 fur coats and 47 luxury bags.It is the loot seized by customs officials to the Parisian homes of Marco Mouly.""False"", assures the ace of financial scams.Real obviously, after verification with Vuitton and Hermès.A bit mythomaniac but still elegant, Marco.""He loves women and the undermining, he takes care of him,"" laughs an investigator, accustomed to the bluffing of this fan of poker and black jack.He would have even inspired the humorist Gad Elmaleh his character from Coco, the flamber who wants to organize his son's mitzvah at the Stade de France.But, from May 2, it was before the Paris Criminal Court that he will appear, alongside Arnaud Mimran, another used to play tables and magazine pages.

La justice les accuse d’avoir participé à la plus grande escroquerie commise en France: le ""casse du siècle"", qui a permis de détourner, en quelques mois, 1,6 milliard d’euros de TVA sur le marché des quotas de CO_² fin 2008 début 2009.With a dozen traders, brokers and straw men, Marco Mouly, Arnaud Mimran and Samy Souied, who died since, are suspected of having pocketed 283 million alone.It’s the best blow of Mouly’s long career.To retrace it is to offer a striking dive at the heart of the great financial delinquency of the last twenty years.

""Il est quasi illettré mais il sait compter""

Mardoché Mouly, known as Marco, married, three children, was born in Tunis in 1965.But he grew up in Belleville, with six brothers and sisters, like the Souied, other Tunisian Jews exiles.Between the two families, we frequent the same synagogue on the boulevard, we will eat skewers at René and Gabin.We sometimes get married and we do business often.Marco made his debut with the Souied brothers whose youngest, Samy.Barely major, it becomes ""disadvantage"" in scams with false advertising inserts: it recovers the checks from the Pigeonnés and remove the species.He won his first conviction there at 13 months suspended in 1993.

""It is almost illiterate and claims it, which makes it a fairly exceptional character in the galaxy, observes a magistrate.But he knows how to count and that’s anything but an idiot.""His specialty is the"" head "", the VAT, and what is called the carousel: a"" taxi ""company, created for the occasion, buys, excluding tax, goods in a European country, and sold themelsewhere to another company by invoicing VAT, without reimbursing the taxman.The first case for which he was pinned about the date of 1998 and relates to computer equipment: 8 million stung at the Danish taxman.Mouly will not be tried until 2015 and will receive three years in prison including a farm;The appeal trial will take place in September. Son ""associé"" dans l’opération n’est autre que Grégory Zaoui, l’un des pionniers de la fraude au CO_².

Mouly owes her first stay in prison - eight months to health in 2004 - to another VAT scam in telephony.This time, the French taxman is a scam of 964.Euros.Mouly will be sentenced on appeal in February 2016 to two years in prison, including a farm.The Court evokes the involvement of Samy Souied, returned to the scam due to a debt of Marco towards him.In a few years, little Samy has become the ""Gadol"" (the Great in Hebrew), a respected figure in the middle.False advertising inserts have made his fortune and he was nicknamed the ""Hippodromes Caid"" because of his bonds with the horse background.

Un bagout hors-norme

Our friends are found in another case in 2005-2007, still in instruction in Rennes.Mouly is accused of having set up a fictitious circuit for the sale of telephone equipment and diverted 4.2 million VAT.According to our information, Nadav Bensoussan is among the indictments.This ""genius of fraudulent montages"" dixit Mouly, is the king of offshore societies, as Challenges told.We also come across Robert Belhassen, a size challenged in 2015 by the Israeli police;He is accused of having supported 756.Euros à l’Olympique de Marseille en se faisant passer pour un agent de joueur.

Marco the funny uses his extraordinary bagout for his scams.""He has the gift of bringing his interlocutors out of their rails,"" admires a loved one.One of his feats of arms would be ""to have supported a million to a pigeon on the phone, sitting on the toilets, wears wide open,"" said Cyril Astruc, another legend of scams, in Vanity Fair.He specifies that he and Mouly often went out with Gad Elmaleh in a trendy Parisian hotel, the K-Palace.In summer, Marco had his habits at Martinez in Cannes where he stayed with Samy Souied.He also frequented the Baoli, the famous nightclub, on the Pierre Canto port where yachts are moored.

It was Marco who would have made the presentations between Souied and Arnaud Mimran, another flambper from the beautiful neighborhoods, renowned for his high -placed friendships, notably with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, as Reveae Médiapart. Les trois aigrefins appliquent la technique du carrousel de TVA au marché des droits à polluer: les sociétés ""taxi"" achètent, hors taxe, des quotas de CO_² à l’étranger, et les revendent en France TVA comprise (19,6 %) sans la reverser à l’Etat.The profits are then reinvested according to the same scheme, and so on.What turn the carousel and climb the jackpot.

Des comptes en Suisse

In the referral order that Challenges consulted, the judges consider that Mouly was ""very involved, both in assembly and the financing of fraud"". Il leur explique la différence entre ""le CO₂ casher et le CO₂ pas casher, le premier consistant à voler la TVA, le second à être courtier.""Above all, he opened three accounts at HSBC in Geneva for Panamanian companies (Folmann, Equinox and...Fantomas!) Of which at least two are held by nominees;""However, these accounts are fed by the product of fraud.""

The judges identified many trips to Israel during the scam, at the same time as Mimran. Le motif selon Mouly: ""faire la fête"" et ""voir des filles"".The guy does not lack the balance: controlled on the return from Switzerland by the customs officers, with 100.Euros en espèces dans une boîte de kleenex, il se fait passer pour son frère et assure qu’il s’agit d’un héritage de sa grand-mère!

Son train de vie semble sans rapport avec ses revenus déclarés, qui paraissent faussement justifiés: ""il déclare au titre des salaires et assimilés 165.Euros en 2009, 80.000 in 2010 and 216.000 en 2011"", sans fournir de fiches de paie.It spends 4 million in an apartment on avenue Georges Mandel, in the 16th arrondissement, but hides behind a rental contract of an SCI held by nominees.Marco also lends 4 million (2 according to him) to the financier Thierry Leyne, the former partner of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the LSK fund, who will be found dead, defenestrated, at the foot of his tower in Tel Aviv, at the end of 2014.Following the bankruptcy of LSK, a judicial information was opened against X for scam.Investigators also found pay slips from Mouly's daughter, a time salaried by one of the Leyne companies.

Des meurtres mystérieux

Le magot du CO₂ a fait tourner les têtes des escrocs, habitués à se trahir au gré des opportunités. Les embrouilles entre ""associés"" se multiplient et le sang commence à couler.On September 14, 2010, a few days after a trip to the joyful troop in Las Vegas, Samy Souied was killed by six 7.65 caliber balls by two scooter killers, Porte Maillot.He would have come to Paris to discuss a stock market investment with Arnaud Mimran.Present next to Souied, Mimran says he has nothing to do with this murder.Same thing for Mouly, heard several times. ""Je suis peut-être un délinquant financier mais je ne suis pas un meurtrier"", affirme-t-il au juge. ""Je n’ai jamais eu de problème avec Samy pour de l’argent.When I asked him, he lent me.And in addition the whole earth lent me money, but it was a way of speaking.""No charge has been retained against Mimran and Mouly.

""Les parties civiles ont été très actives et essayé d’aider la justice au mieux mais l’enquête n’avance pas"", déplore l’avocate de la famille Souied, Sylvie Messica-Sitbon, jointe par téléphone. Cette enquête serait freinée selon Mediapart par de possibles collusions entre policiers et ""escrocs du CO₂"".Besides, Eric Souied, Samy's brother, who is also a civil party and defended by another lawyer Arié Alimi, filed a complaint against X on April 28, for passive corruption committed by a person exercising a public service, and association ofcriminals...

Entre-temps, Marco a été rattrapé par les fraudes au CO₂.Arrested in April 2013, he spent 14 months in Nanterre prison.His apartment is seized and his Swiss accounts (7 million) frozen. ""Il n’a pas pris autant d’argent qu’on le dit, assure un proche.Since Samy's death, we have been trying to make him wear a costume too big for him.""Just before his release from prison, it was his cousin, Cyril Mouly, also a nephew of Samy Souied, who escaped an assassination attempt. Surnommé ""The Frenchman"" lorsqu’il alignait les liasses de billets à la Bobby’s Room, la célèbre table de poker de Las Vegas, Cyril a été condamné en première instance à cinq ans ferme pour une escroquerie aux encarts publicitaires.Albert Taïeb, known as Bébert, a handyman of Mouly and Souied, who accompanied him that day, was less lucky and was fatally stabbed.There too, the investigation seems to be in a standstill.The trial of Marco Mouly, whom we tried to contact in vain via his lawyers, David-Olivier Kaminski and Serge Kierszenbaum, will perhaps allow to learn more about these mysterious murders.

Through his lawyers, Mr. Mardoché MOULY wishes to provide the following right of response: "Mr. Mardoché Mouly has always challenged being a key cog in this file relating to fraud on the CO2 quota markets.In addition, the latter has never been associated with Mr. Grégory Zaoui in any case.Finally, Mr. Mardoche Mouly formally disputes, in general, the rumors of which this article reports about it.»»