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His friendship with Cyril Hanouna, his flashy appearances... But who is Marco Mouly really?

2023-01-13T14:14:34.524Z


PORTRAIT – Regularly invited on the set of “Touche pas à mon poste”, this 50-year-old boaster would almost make you forget that the carbon tax VAT scam, in which he participated, deprived the French State of hundreds of millions euros.


The banter.

It was she who allowed him to get out of poverty, says

Marco Mouly

when he depicts his youth without being afraid to accentuate the dark colors.

She, who gave her access to "the scam of the century", the siphoning of the green stock market in 2007 and 2008. We cannot resist quoting one of her replies sent to the judge during her trial, there is six years old:

“I was reproached for the 50,000 euros worth of bags offered to my wife.

I did the math, over 30 years, that's 1,200 euros per year.

He who does not offer 1,200 euros in gifts a year to his wife is that he does not love her.

His qualities as a smooth talker now open the doors to him at

“Touche pas à mon poste!

»

on C8.

Its host, Cyril Hanouna, understood the interest he had in propelling this olibrius to the front of the stage.

As the falsely eruptive sequence of Thursday evening shows, Marco Mouly can sow discord.

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“Thanks to Cyril Hanouna, Marco Mouly sold 15,000 copies of his book”

Its new highlight dates from the release, last year, of the Netflix documentary

Les rois de l'arnaque

, written by journalist Olivier Bouchara and directed by Guillaume Nicloux.

Then of his invitation, accompanied by the other protagonist of the film Grégory Zaoui, by Cyril Hanouna, in November 2021 on C8.

After their respective years in prison, the two men thus gained a start of celebrity.

Everyone capitalized on it in their own way.

A talker, Marco Mouly improvises himself as an influencer on Instagram, for electronic cigars or a barber, and gives entrepreneurship lessons as an

"international businessman" ... In reality, the latest

Society

survey

testifies to the fact that the

"businessman"

, this is how he describes himself, nevertheless intends to flirt with the boundaries of legality.

Read alsoGrégory Zaoui, the carbon tax scammer in the spotlight

At the same time, Marco Mouly published the story, co-written with a former M6 journalist and screenwriter, Julie Madar, of his incredible escape.

'

TPMP

',

with one hour of air time devoted to it, was an incredible accelerator.

Thanks to Cyril, 15,000 copies have been sold.

This author may be vilified on social networks, he is breaking audience records

, ”notes Harper Collins collection director Mathieu Johann.

With approximately 30,000 books sold, it is one of the publishing house's three biggest successes of the year.

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C8 is not the only channel to invite him.

We saw it in "Seven to Eight", last January, on TF1.

Faustine Bollaert, on France 2, received him in November in "It starts today", to talk about his escape.

The guy took the opportunity to defend himself:

"You are talking about a large sum, it's true, but whoever steals an egg steals an ox, and eight years in prison is enormous".

At the same time, he was also in “Quelle époque!

on France 2, where Christophe Dechavanne and Léa Salamé showed more strength.

Marco Mouly had then rebounded by making believe that he had information on the taxes of Dechavanne …

“Are we doing Coco 2?

»

Marco Mouly to Gad Elmaleh

“Every time Cyril calls me to come to his set, even if I'm abroad, I go there because I really love him.

We have fraternal relations”

, assured Marco Mouly recently to “Buzz TV”.

They go back to the time when he earned a fortune thanks to the carbon scam and liked to show himself alongside show business personalities.

He is proud of it, Matt Pokora, Nikos Aliagas, Garou, comedian Booder, Cyril Hanouna and Gad Elmaleh attended his son's bar mitzvah in October 2012 in the Parisian nightclub Le Showcase.

"Cyril, Gad and Booder"

did not want to be paid for their visit, he assured in early January in "TPMP".

“I would have felt bad to take some sorrel from you

,” replies Cyril Hanouna.

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As for Gad Elmaleh, with whom he says he spent many evenings, Marco Mouly would have inspired the character of Coco.

This gambler millionaire who wants

“always the top”

in the film of the same name, released in 2009. The comedian, oddly, did not appear in the documentary

The kings of the scam

.

“Are we doing Coco 2?

»

, have fun the two men in a video published on the networks last year.

On the ex-crook's Instagram account, we also saw Jamel Debbouze or Ramzy Bédia scrolling, with a charming Spa setting where Marco Mouly, who definitely never leaves his role, seems to have his habits.

Ramzy will soon embody him on Canal +, in the first series directed by Xavier Giannoli, who was passionate about this affair.

A creation in which Mouly refused to participate because

“they only mean harm”

, he specifies in the columns of

Society

.

A case which, far from the image that Marco Mouly can give of it on the sets, is by no means painless.

It is estimated that several hundred million euros intended for the fight against global warming have escaped the French State because of this gigantic fraud.

It consisted of selling “right to pollute” quotas from abroad without paying VAT.

The jackpot thus won has fueled jealousies.

Three men were killed.

More generally, the millions of scammers ended up transforming the face of the underworld in France.

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Source: lefigaro

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