He has been imprisoned since February in the Fleury-Mérogis remand center (Essonne). Patrick Balkany has filed a request for parole adjustment before the Evry prosecutor’s office, we learned from concordant sources.
This request, filed through his lawyers Me Romain Dieudonné and Robin Binsard, has “not yet been heard”, said the Evry prosecution. At the end of this hearing, the justice will decide on his conditional release, his placement under an electronic bracelet or his continued detention.
Patrick Balkany, 73, has been imprisoned since February 7 in Fleury-Mérogis. After having carried out five months of detention for tax evasion, then having been released under electronic bracelet for health reasons, the former mayor LR of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) returned to prison because of numerous breaches of his obligations, according to justice.
The placement under an electronic bracelet of his wife Isabelle, still hospitalized since her suicide attempt in February, has also been revoked.
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 4 million euros. euros of sums evaded.
The couple retried in October
The end of Patrick Balkany’s prison is scheduled for April 2023, said his lawyer Me Binsard during a fixing hearing in Nanterre for a sexual photomontage case in which Patrick Balkany will be tried in April 2023. It is not excluded that he will come out early by then as part of a sentence adjustment, ”said the lawyer on Tuesday during this hearing. “Our client has already been heavily sanctioned: he executed 18 months in prison, his property was confiscated. He is 73 years old and wants to take advantage of the time he has left with his family, ”said his two advisers.
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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.