Balkany slams "disproportionate" court requests in fraud trial A lawyer for Patrick and Isabelle Balkany claims the latter "does not understand the amount of the sentences requested" and that "there is a disproportion between requisitions and the law". A Paris court is spending six weeks wading into the financial morass created by the Parisian "power couple" who were once mayor and deputy mayor of swanky suburb Levallois-Perret. It is alleged shell companies in Panama and the Seychelles, bank accounts in Lichtenstein and Singapore, and Swiss trustees and loyal front men were used to hide over 13 million euros in assets. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES(COMPLETES VID1346452_EN)