The former LR mayor of Levallois-Perret, imprisoned since February 7, filed a request for parole through his lawyers.
This hearing will take place on May 19 in the Fleury-Merogis remand center, according to them.
At the end of this hearing, the justice will decide on his conditional release, his placement under an electronic bracelet or his continued detention.
After having carried out five months of detention for tax evasion, then was released under electronic bracelet for health reasons, the former elected 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under an electronic bracelet of his wife Isabelle, still hospitalized since her suicide attempt in February, has also been revoked.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 four million euros. euros of sums evaded.
Patrick Balkany's release from prison is scheduled for April 2023.
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 indicted 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.
"Our client has already executed twenty months in prison. He is 73 years old and wishes to take advantage of the time he has left with his family," his lawyers Romain Dieudonné and Robin Binsard told AFP on Monday, specifying that they were reserving " their statements for the hearing".
The decision of the three magistrates of the Evry sentence enforcement court will "probably" be deliberated, according to them.
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