Levallois-Perret: Patrick Balkany has not finished with justice

The electronic bracelet surrounding Patrick Balkany's ankle allows him to serve his three-year prison sentence at home, in his manor in Giverny (Eure), alongside his wife Isabelle, also placed under an electronic bracelet.

The former elected officials of Levallois-Perret are serving the same sentence, imposed on them for tax evasion.

This is the couple's first final conviction.

If both have also been retried for laundering tax fraud, and sentenced to five and four years on appeal, there is no question today of serving the sentence.

The Court of Cassation is seized of an appeal.

Until it's sliced, no jail, no bracelet.

The driver's case still ongoing

But that's not all.

Patrick Balkany is indicted in two other proceedings.

For "embezzlement of public funds" in the case of the drivers.

And again for "embezzlement of public funds" in that of the building of which his son-in-law would have sublet part of the premises.

In the case of the drivers, the former mayor of Levallois has been indicted since July 21.

He is concerned for having made four municipal police officers work as private drivers, in particular to ensure his travel between his town and his home in Giverny, between 2010 and 2015.

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A municipal police officer is "legally seconded to the mayor's office to perform the functions of security driver", defends Patrick Balkany, since the revelation of the case.

This emerged through an anonymous letter sent to the prosecutor in 2013, while the Paris prosecutor's office launched the investigations that led the former mayor behind bars.

At the heart of the instruction on the employment of municipal police officers, there is also the trip of one of these drivers to the West Indies, for a stay in the now famous villa owned by the Balkany in Saint-Martin.

Semarelp case: his daughter under the status of assisted witness

Latest indictment on February 9 in the case mainly targeting his ex-son-in-law.

Semarelp, 80% owned by the city of Levallois and of which Patrick Balkany was the president, had made available to a company of the former son-in-law premises destined for destruction.

The ex-son-in-law is indicted for having sublet them.

Patrick Balkany denies having played any role in this arrangement, arguing that he was not the director of Semarelp, but its president.

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The director was first Jean-Marc Smadja, Isabelle Balkany's cousin, between 2001 and 2008. Then, from 2008 to 2014, Jean-Pierre Aubry, the faithful of Patrick Balkany's faithful.

Jean-Marc Smadja and Jean-Pierre Aubry are indicted in this case, while the daughter of the former mayor of Levallois is placed under the status of assisted witness.