Mid 2022, the gendarmes searched the accommodation of 270 m2 Located in Gujan-Mestras, upstairs of the ITC laboratory which makes food supplements from dehydrated oyster flesh from Portugal. Marc Moura bought the business.
An abus of social good?
The survey follows an audit verification of the company, which highlights deductible VAT declarations, linked to work that does not correspond to those provided in building permits. The initial permit provides for the renovation of industrial premises and the creation of other premises upstairs. The modifying permit stipulates 60m accommodation2 For the goalkeeper. Accommodation that has never seen the light of day, for a goalkeeper who does not exist and even a caretaker’s house, she already exists on site. None of the documents in any case report 270 m2 surface, four bedrooms with bathroom.
Inside, the gendarmes find there the personal effects of the two girls of the manager, clothes, shoes, sailing certificate and defeated beds. For the prosecutor Sandrine Ballanger, it is a second home “for weekends”, in Arcachon, “anchor of family leisure”. The boat is moored at the port. Justice, in addition to town planning offenses, therefore suspects Marc Moura for having used AVEL money for personal purposes. Abuse of social good, in legal language.
“It is a receptive space to receive my customers”
“It is a receptive space to receive my clients, challenges the interested party, big fortunes that come from abroad”. Customers received by his daughters (hence the presence of their business), to whom he has already transmitted half of his shares. “I have, moreover, never denied that we were occasionally going there. Besides, I poured € 1,500 of monthly rent to AVEL. “But justice has only found a trace of a dozen transfers between 2018 and 2022. More annoying, the president exhausts an email sent in 2013 by the architect to the owner, describing a second version of the project” with your apartment in the mezzanine, which will allow you to benefit from an interesting view of the Basin and the morning sun “.
“Why not have declared the reality of the work?” Insists the judge, without really an answer. The architect put forward an explanation: it was a modular apartment. “As soon as the market is gaining momentum, if it was necessary to welcome new employees, it was enough for two weeks to transform the rooms into offices” and “change the destination of the place”. But the market has never taken off and seven employees, the company has only one … which does not have the keys to this “receptive space”.
The destruction of the property?
Questioned during the investigation, the chief departmental management of territories and the sea stressed that the house is in the 100 m band of the coastline, unconscious, and that the sector does not allow any construction, only renovations. According to him, the building permit would never have been accepted.
The defendant would then have hoped to get around the rules? His lawyer protests against a dependent investigation and brandishes all the facilities made for people with disabilities. Work at € 200,000, not compulsory in a personal house! It also surprises that no “victim” came to plead his wrongs in court. The prosecutor requested 18 months suspended prison sentence for Marc Moura, € 200,000 fine, half of which was suspended and the compliance of the accommodation. If it is not possible, it will be necessary to destroy. She requested € 200,000 fine for the company AVEL and 8 months suspended for the architect and € 50,000 fine suspended. Answer on September 9.
