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IMF chief faces arraignment in New York
World-finance official faces attempted rape charges
By Robert Daniel, MarketWatch
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) – The head of the International Monetary Fund was expected to be arraigned Sunday afternoon in New York on charges of attempted rape, according to media reports.
IMF leader and potential French presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, was pulled from an airplane bound for Paris just before its departure Saturday in New York, the Associated Press reported.
The IMF chief was arrested after a 32-year-old maid told authorities Strauss-Kahn attacked her Saturday afternoon after she entered his suite at the luxury Sofitel hotel to clean the $3,000-a-night suite, which she had been told was empty, the AP reported.
According to an account given by the woman to police, Strauss-Kahn came out of a bathroom naked, pursued her down a hallway, and pulled her into a bedroom, where he started to sexually assault her. The woman said she fought him off, then he pulled her into the bathroom, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him and attempted to remove her underwear. The woman once again broke free and alerted hotel staff, who called police, the authorities said.
When detectives arrived moments later Strauss-Kahn had left the hotel, leaving his cellphone behind, a police spokesperson told the AP.
Strauss-Kahn, considered a potential Socialist Party challenger to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012, was arrested on an Air France jet about to depart from John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Reuters
French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) speaks with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Feb. 18, 2011, during a G20 meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
An attorney for Strauss-Kahn said his client would plead not guilty, the reports said.
In a Sunday statement, the IMF confirmed the arrest but declined further comment. The agency said it was “fully functioning and operational.”
In 2008, Strauss-Kahn was investigated by the IMF about whether he’d had an improper relationship with a woman subordinate. He was cleared of abuse-of-power allegations but apologized to the IMF staff, The Wall Street Journal reported. The IMF said then that his actions had shown “a serious error of judgment,” AP reported.
In September 2007, he was named to a five-year term to head the IMF, a 187-nation organization that provides funding and other resources to facilitate trade and reduce poverty.
The IMF has played a key role in the financial bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Last week, Strauss-Kahn’s deputy, John Lipsky, said he would step down in August as his five-year term ends.
Strauss-Kahn was scheduled to meet on Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Monday and Tuesday with euro-zone finance ministers, to discuss the euro-zone financial crisis. The talks with Merkel have been canceled, Reuters reported, citing a German government representative.
David Buik, a spokesman in London for the New York securities brokerage BGC Partners Inc., said the incident shouldn’t much affect financial markets.
The markets “will be much more concerned about seeing some unanimity of purpose from the E.U. political leaders over contingency plans for providing extra help for Greece and maybe Ireland and Portugal,” he said in a Sunday statement.
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