[Exclusive] Patrick and Isabelle Balkany risk a spring very agitated. While the Office of the National Assembly could raise, Wednesday, March 18, the parliamentary immunity of deputy mayor of Levallois-Perret -mis under investigation for “tax evasion laundering” -, here Madam, first deputy to Mr. Hall, will have to face new legal troubles. The Express is able to reveal an inhabitant of the town complained last week, with the public prosecutor of Nanterre, against “Isabelle Smadja, [...] wife Balkany” for “fraudulent entry on the electoral lists of Levallois. ” A very embarrassing suspicion because it could call into question the legality of the election of Isabelle Balkany in the last three municipal elections (2001, 2008 and 2014), and the validity of some of his decisions as a first deputy mayor.
“Spouse: none”
picturesque detail: that complaint draws its foundation in a statement … Patrick Balkany in person. In January 2014, in its declaration of interests and activities, mandatory under his parliamentary mandate, the deputy mayor of Levallois registered “none” to the “identification of the spouse, partner.” In other words, Isabelle Balkany is not, in the legal sense of the term, his partner bound by a “civil partnership or partner.” They are supposed to live their separate ways.
In fact, Balkany separated “from bed and board” in charge since 1996. The couple was cold at the time. He then closer, but again without changing its legal position. This “trick” allows them, among other things, conduct separate tax returns in order to avoid payment of the solidarity tax on wealth (ISF) for their luxurious property in Giverny (Eure), where they resided for almost thirty years. The survey for “tax evasion laundering”, opened in 2013, revealed that the “couple” cache to the tax authorities for years, ownership of a luxury villa in Saint-Martin (West Indies) and the fact that it is the beneficiary of a sumptuous riad in Marrakech.
Nevertheless. In 2012, Isabelle Balkany received a refund of 6,000 euros in taxes under “single person” … But “trick” used by legal Balkany could turn against them. And undermine the validity of their mandates, they are still at the head of the city. A Levallois, Isabelle Balkany was domiciled, like her husband, electoral permanence of it. Which allowed it to be registered on the electoral roll and to be elected. Or, “separated” from her former spouse, she could not benefit from this domiciliation …
Application in “irregular circumstances”?
After reported the breach to the Electoral Code to the prefecture of Hauts-de-Seine, four times between March and September 2014 and the Ministry of the Interior, in February, a resident of Levallois therefore recently filed a complaint for “fraudulent entry “. “During the last three municipal elections (2001, 2008 and 2014, ed), the nomination of Mrs. Balkany was laid in irregular conditions and [...] under these conditions, the election should be canceled,” said the complaint including L’Express has obtained a copy.
In 2001, during his re-election as mayor, Patrick Balkany, debt vis-à-vis the town following a conviction for “illegal interest”, chose Isabelle Balkany as first deputy. It also gets the financial decision power to the municipality (she gave up in April 2014). But all this was decided on the basis of registration as voters today challenged in court … “We find ourselves in a situation probably unprecedented in France, where for thirteen years, a mayor sentenced for offense at the expense of his commune, delegates its financial decision-making function to a person whose election to the City Council itself is flawed … “said one expert dossier. At the last revision of electoral rolls in December 2014, Patrick and Isabelle Balkany changed their domicilation. In the viewfinder of justice for tax evasion suspicions of money laundering in exotic locations, the masters of Levallois could again find themselves on trial in their municipal citadel. Approached by L’Express, Isabelle Balkany has, at first, not responded to our requests for comment. After reading the article, she finally reminded us to deny “fraud” concerned with the registration on the electoral roll. Similarly, it denies “having touched a tax credit under the status of a single parent.”
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