The ex-mayor of Levallois-Perret, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for tax fraud and five years for aggravated money laundering and illegal taking of interests, will be released from prison on Friday August 5. >
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Patrick Balkany will leave the Fleury-Mérogis prison on Friday, August 5 on Friday, August 5, where he has been imprisoned since February and will benefit from a parole regime. The chamber of the application of the sentences of the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed, Thursday, August 4, the decision rendered on May 30 by the Evry penalty application, which had authorized this release conditional. The prosecution had appealed by considering that the ex-mayor of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) demonstrated “always his opposition to the principle of his condemnation, despite his final character, which augurs badly of respect for the measurement of adjustment of sentence requested “.
Patrick Balkany, who will be 74 years old on August 16, purges a three -year sentence for “tax fraud”, pronounced by the Paris Court of Appeal on March 4, 2020 and another five years for “aggravated laundering of Tax fraud and illegal taking of interests “, rendered on appeal on May 27, 2020. During the first trial, before the Paris Criminal Court in September 2019, he was arrested at the hearing and imprisoned in the health prison . His wife, Isabelle, was sentenced to three and four years in prison in these two files but was not imprisoned. Both had seen each other inflicted a complementary sentence of ten years of ineligibility and had to give up directing the town hall of Levallois.
judicial course not finished
After five months of detention, the ex-mayor had been put up for the first time on parole, for health reasons, in February 2020 and the spouses had been placed under an electronic bracelet in their property in Giverny (Eure). But following a hundred incidents that occurred in the application of their judicial supervision, the Evreux sentences application, confirmed by the Court of Appeal, had revoked the couple’s penalty. Patrick Balkany was again incarcerated in February. The fate of his wife had been suspended because she was then hospitalized following a suicide attempt.
The ex-mayor’s judicial journey is not over. In October, a new trial will be held on the two cases in which he was definitively condemned, which will only relate to the quantum of the sentence pronounced, following a decision of the Court of Cassation. Also suspected of having used municipal agents for personal purposes between 2010 and 2015, Patrick Balkany was indicted in July 2020 for “embezzlement of public funds”. He has also been prosecuted since February 2021 for “abuse of corporate goods”, “illegal taking of interests” and “embezzlement of public funds” in another case on suspicions of fraudulent use of premises belonging to the city of Levallois, Between 2008 and 2015.