The justice suspects that Patrick Balkany has used municipal agents for personal purposes while he was mayor of Levallois-Perret.
The ex-mayor of Levallois-Perret, Patrick Balkany, who was sentenced on appeal to 5 years in prison for laundering of tax fraud, has been under investigation, suspected of having used the municipal officers for personal purposes while he was mayor, said Friday the prosecutor of Nanterre. Patrick Balkany has been under investigation Thursday after an interrogation of several hours for “misappropriation of public funds” between 2010 and 2015, said this source, confirming information Parisien.
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The justice suspects that Patrick Balkany has used municipal agents for personal purposes while he was mayor of this town, well-to-do of the suburbs close to paris. The ex-municipal official has always proclaimed his innocence. The investigation had been opened in December 2013. An anonymous letter had been sent to the public prosecutor of Nanterre, a few months earlier.
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First sentence at the end of may
Patrick Balkany has been elected for the first time in Levallois in the Hauts-de-Seine in 1983. With his wife Isabelle, they have made the old suburban red held by the communists a common affluent residential where the industrial wastelands have given way to residences of standing.
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at the End of may, the couple were condemned on appeal respectively to 5 and 4 years in prison for laundering of tax fraud, without incarceration immediate because of their state of health. He was also sentenced to ten years of ineligibility, with provisional execution of this additional penalty.
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They have lodged an appeal in cassation against this last sentence. In case of rejection of their appeal, they will be summoned to appear before a sentencing judge, who will respond to their requests any penalty adjustment. If the appeal grew, the couple could be remanded to a new court of appeal for another trial.
