Patrick Balkany despatched to trial for embezzlement of public funds | EUROtoday

The former mayor of Levallois-Perret Patrick Balkany is predicted on February 20 earlier than the Nanterre legal court docket, which should strive him for embezzlement of public funds, the Nanterre prosecutor’s workplace introduced in a press launch on Monday.

The objective of the listening to might be to set the date of the judgment on the deserves of this case regarding information which passed off from January 2010 to May 2015, on the time when Mr. Balkany was nonetheless mayor of this city in Hauts-de-Seine.

The public prosecutor specifies that the affair started in December 2012 following a report from two municipal police unions to the general public prosecutor’s workplace, which determined to open an investigation. This was entrusted to the financial crime repression brigade of the Parisian judicial police. A judicial investigation was opened in December 2013. Indicted in July 2020 on this case, the previous councilor is suspected of getting used municipal law enforcement officials as drivers and autos for personal functions.

The prosecution specified {that a} dismissal of proceedings had been ordered regarding proceedings for unlawful taking of pursuits and cash laundering, concealment of those identical counts in addition to complicity and concealment of embezzlement of public funds.

“Unfounded and slanderous accusations”

“We will be present at the hearing, alongside Patrick Balkany, to formally contest these unfounded and slanderous accusations”reacted to Agence France-Presse (AFP) Robin Binsard and Romain Dieudonné, legal professionals for the previous mayor.

According to The ParisianMr. Balkany was additionally summoned on February 20 for an additional case of embezzlement of public funds during which the previous director of financial improvement of Levallois would have continued to be paid after retiring in 2012. This second case was not the topic of an investigation however of a summons to court docket by direct summons on the initiative of the prosecution, specifies the day by day.

“It is through the press that we learn of the summons in the second case, we salute the elegance of the prosecution which prefers the press to the code of criminal procedure”quipped MM. Binsard and Dieudonné.

Last week, the Evreux sentence enforcement court docket granted Patrick Balkany, 77, conditional launch for the eighteen months of jail he stays to serve following his conviction in 2023 for a number of monetary crimes; a choice which the prosecution appealed.

Declared ineligible by the Paris Court of Appeal in 2023, the previous Baron of Hauts-de-Seine, a right-wing determine on this division west of Paris, stays very concerned in native politics, just a few weeks earlier than the municipal elections.