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The time of the (first) judgment came for the Balkany husbands. Friday at 1:30 pm, the couple will be fixed on his fate in the component "tax evasion" of the resounding trial held in the spring - the tax accuses them of having undervalued their income, for an estimated damage to four million dollars. euros. Against Patrick Balkany, who disputes this amount but admits he has not declared a paternal inheritance placed in Switzerland, the prosecution has required four years in prison with warrant of deposit.
Prison closes, never seen for tax evasion in politics
It is the mayor of Levallois who risks the biggest Friday: the same sentence was required against his wife, but with two years of stay. The latter, absent from the trial after her suicide attempt, will go to court for the first time to hear the judgment. "It would still be amazing to go to jail, unless the judges wanted to set an example," she told Europe 1 this week.
If the Balkany were sentenced to prison for tax evasion, this would be a first in the political world. The latest example is Jérôme Cahuzac, who was sentenced to four years, two of which were suspended and the court authorized him to arrange his sentence with an electronic bracelet.
A second riskier judgment expected October 18
It is with apparent confidence that the couple surrender to his judgment, alongside his son Alexander and three other defendants. But it is actually the second deadline that can worry them more: October 18 will be the judgment of the second part of the case, for money laundering and corruption.
For these facts, the prosecutor's office also asked for an immediate incarceration of the city council, but with a heavier sentence - seven years in prison - and the confiscation of all the property of the couple. He is also threatened by another case: suspected of having used drivers of his town hall for personal purposes, he is summoned mid-September by the judicial police.