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The couple Balkany is suspected of having hidden 13 million euros of assets in the tax between 2007 and 2014, including two sumptuous villas, Pamplemousse in the West Indies and Dar Guycy in Marrakech. Thomas SAMSON / AFP

Convicted of tax evasion last month, the Balkany husbands will be fixed Friday, October 18 on their fate in the second part of their trial. This time for "large-scale laundering", and "corruption" for the mayor of Levallois-Perret who has been sleeping for a month in prison. The two spouses are suspected of having hidden 13 million euros from the French tax authorities.

From the prosecutor's words, money laundering is no doubt in this case. The Balkany spouses are suspected of having set up financial packages via front companies to hide some of their properties from the tax authorities.

Two of them are particularly attracting the attention of the national financial prosecutor: first there is the now famous villa Pamplemousse , in the West Indies. During the hearings, Isabelle Balkany admitted to having acquired it thanks to a family inheritance, but while passing via a company based in Lichenstein. On the other hand, the couple have always denied having the luxury riad of the palm grove in Marrakech, despite the embroidered bathrobes with the initials PB Patrick Balkany found inside the villa.

In total, with these two sumptuous properties never declared, it is 13 million euros of assets that would have been hidden in the tax from 2007 to 2014. Against Patrick Balkany, the prosecutor's office required seven years in prison with immediate imprisonment, ten years ineligibility and the confiscation of all his property. The councilor has already been sentenced to 4 years in prison in the tax evasion section a month ago.

If he were to be sentenced again this Friday, October 18, the court could decide to pronounce a sentence confusion.