Patrick Balkany

The Évreux sentence enforcement court authorised Balkany to serve the remaining fifteen months of his sentence at home. Following an appeal by the prosecutor, the Rouen Court of Appeal upheld conditional release on 9 April 2026.

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At the new civil hearing ordered after the 2024 ruling, the state withdrew its claim for damages against the Balkany couple, considering that the tax and criminal penalties already imposed sufficiently compensated its loss.

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The Court of Cassation upheld the criminal penalties and confiscation of the life interest in the Giverny mill, making most of the criminal case final. It nevertheless quashed the €400,000 damages awarded to the state and ordered a new trial on that civil aspect alone.

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Following referral after the Court of Cassation ruling, the Paris Court of Appeal set Patrick Balkany's sentence for money laundering at four and a half years, with a €100,000 fine, ten years' disqualification from elected office and confiscation of the life interest in the Giverny mill.

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The Court of Cassation dismissed appeals against the findings of guilt, which became final, but quashed, among other things, the length of certain sentences, some confiscations and the €1 million compensation awarded to the state, requiring a new hearing on those matters.

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The Paris Court of Appeal upheld Patrick Balkany's guilt for aggravated laundering of tax fraud proceeds and imposed five years in prison, a €100,000 fine, ten years' disqualification from elected office and confiscations.

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The Court of Appeal overturned the 2019 acquittal on illegal taking of interest, finding that Balkany had received personal benefits in kind in connection with the Levallois towers property contract.

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In the second part of the case, Balkany was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated laundering of the proceeds of tax fraud, together with confiscations and a further period of disqualification from elected office.

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The court rejected allegations of passive corruption and illegal taking of interest, notably in connection with the Levallois towers property project and alleged benefits from Mohamed Al Jaber.

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The National Assembly's Bureau voted unanimously to lift Patrick Balkany's parliamentary immunity to permit certain coercive investigative measures.

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The courts ultimately found that the couple had concealed approximately €13 million in assets from the tax authorities, notably using offshore accounts and shell companies linked to the Pamplemousse villa in Saint-Martin and Dar Gyucy in Marrakech, as well as other assets.

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The Nanterre Criminal Court found Balkany guilty in a case concerning the assignment of three municipal police officers and one seconded national police officer to security driving and tasks considered unrelated to their public duties.

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In two judgments delivered the same day, Patrick Balkany received, respectively, four years' imprisonment including one year suspended, and thirty months including fifteen months suspended, without immediate committal orders. The court also imposed fines of €350,000 and €500,000, ten years' disqualification from elected office and a five-year ban on public-sector employment.

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The Paris Court of Appeal refused to lift Patrick Balkany's ten-year disqualification from elected office, preventing him from personally standing in the 2026 Levallois municipal elections.

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The Rouen Court of Appeal upheld revocation of the electronic monitoring arrangement after approximately 100 monitoring incidents. Patrick Balkany was returned to custody at Fleury-Mérogis.

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The Paris Court of Appeal upheld the decision authorising his conditional release; Balkany left Fleury-Mérogis on 5 August 2022.

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Patrick and Isabelle Balkany began serving at home, under electronic monitoring, the final sentences arising from the tax fraud case.

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The Paris Court of Appeal sentenced Patrick Balkany to four years' imprisonment, including one year suspended, without an immediate committal order, and ten years' disqualification from elected office for tax fraud.

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Provisional enforcement of the ten-year disqualification from elected office ended his municipal mandates in Levallois-Perret.

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The Paris Criminal Court sentenced Patrick Balkany to four years' imprisonment for tax fraud, with an immediate committal order, and ten years' disqualification from elected office. He was immediately taken to La Santé prison.

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The Versailles Court of Appeal upheld the conviction on 30 January 1997, and the Court of Cassation dismissed Patrick Balkany's appeal on 7 May 1998, making the criminal outcome final.

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Patrick Balkany was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment suspended, a fine of 200,000 francs and two years' disqualification from elected office in the municipal employees case.

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Three people paid as municipal employees were actually working for the couple personally, notably at their Levallois apartment and Giverny mill. The criminal proceedings covered 1992–1995, earlier years being time-barred.

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