Patrick Balkany, who made a request for sentence adjustment following his incarceration in Fleury-Merogis (Essonne), will be fixed on his fate on May 30.
This Thursday afternoon, his lawyers, My Romain Dieudonné and Robin Binsard, pleaded for the release of their client before the Evry sentence enforcement court (Essonne), during a hearing held behind closed doors in the prison.
The former LR mayor of Levallois-Perret, imprisoned since February 7, had filed a request for parole through his lawyers.
After spending five months in detention for tax evasion, he was released in February 2020 for health reasons and then placed on an electronic bracelet a year later.
But he returned to prison due to numerous breaches of his obligations, according to justice.
If the sentence enforcement court orders that he remain in detention, Patrick Balkany's release from prison is scheduled for April 2023.
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The placement under electronic bracelet of his wife Isabelle, still hospitalized since her suicide attempt in February, had also been revoked.
The Balkany retried in October for laundering tax evasion
The Balkany spouses had been found guilty of not having paid wealth tax between 2010 and 2015 and of having paid a grossly undervalued income tax between 2009 and 2014, for an estimated total of four million euros. euros of sums evaded.
With his wife, they must be retried in October in the tax evasion money laundering case with the sole issue of the quantum of their sentences, after a decision of the Court of Cassation, because already found definitively guilty of this offense.
Patrick Balkany remains under investigation in Nanterre in various cases, in particular for "embezzlement of public funds", suspected of having used drivers from the town hall of Levallois for personal purposes.
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"The rest of his sentence is counted in years": return to prison for Patrick Balkany
“Our client has already served twenty months in prison.
He is 73 years old and wants to take advantage of the time he has left with his family,” his lawyers Romain Dieudonné and Robin Binsard told AFP in early May, adding that they reserved “their statements for the hearing”.
