The former mayor of Lavallois Perret filed a request for sentence adjustment on parole before the Evry prosecutor’s office.
Patrick Balkany, imprisoned since February in the Fleury-Merogis remand center (Essonne), filed a request for parole adjustment before the Evry prosecution, AFP learned on Tuesday from concordant sources. This request, filed through his lawyers Me Romain Dieudonné and Robin Binsard, has “not yet been heard”, said the Evry prosecution, requested by AFP.
At the end of this hearing, the justice will decide on his conditional release, his placement under electronic bracelet or his continued detention. Patrick Balkany, 73, has been imprisoned since February 7 in Fleury-Merogis.
After having carried out five months of detention for tax evasion, then having been released under electronic bracelet for health reasons, the former mayor LR of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) returned to prison because of numerous breaches of his obligations, according to justice.
Isabelle Balkany still hospitalized
The placement under electronic bracelet of his wife Isabelle, still hospitalized since her suicide attempt in February, has also been revoked.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 4 million euros. euros of sums evaded.
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The end of Mr. Balkany’s prison is scheduled for April 2023, said his lawyer Me Binsard during a fixing hearing in Nanterre for a sexual photomontage case in which Mr. Balkany will be tried in April 2023.