The incredible legal story of Patrick Balkany – and his wife – continues.

He will appear on May 19 before the Evry sentence enforcement court, following his request for a sentence adjustment.

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.

Breaches of obligations

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under an electronic bracelet of his wife Isabelle, still hospitalized since her suicide attempt in February, has also been revoked.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.

New trial in October

Patrick Balkany's release from prison is scheduled for April 2023. With his wife, they are to be retried in October in the tax evasion money laundering case with the only issue being the quantum of their sentences, after a decision by the Court of Cassation , because they have already been found guilty of this offence.

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.

Patrick Balkany wants to spend time "with family"

“Our client has already served twenty months in prison.

He is 73 years old and wants to take advantage of the time he has left with his family,” his lawyers Romain Dieudonné and Robin Binsard told AFP on Monday, adding that they reserved “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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