FILE: Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will face trial on charges of pimping, prosecutors say.

Record ID: 559623

  • Title: FILE: Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will face trial on charges of pimping, prosecutors say.
  • Date: 26th July 2013
  • Summary: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) (FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY) NEWS CONFERENCE FORMER HOTEL MAID NAFISSATOU DIALLO AT NEWS CONFERENCE
  • Embargoed: 10th August 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Usa, France
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  • Country: France
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  • Story Text: Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be tried in France on pimping charges, prosecutors said on Friday, after a long inquiry into sex parties attended by the man whose presidential hopes were dashed by a separate 2011 U.S. sex scandal.
    Investigating judges in the case determined that Strauss-Kahn, 64, should be judged by a criminal court over allegations he was complicit in a pimping operation involving prostitutes at the Carlton hotel in the northern city of Lille.
    The decision came as a surprise after a public prosecutor had recommended in June that the inquiry be dropped without trial.
    The so-called Carlton affair involved sex parties that Strauss-Kahn has acknowledged attending although he says he was unaware that the women who participated were prostitutes.
    Under French law, pimping is a broad crime that encompasses aiding or encouraging prostitution.
    Because the parties allegedly involved several prostitutes, Strauss-Kahn will stand trial on the more serious charge of "aggravated pimping", which carries a maximum term of 10 years in prison and a 1.5 million euros (1.3 million pounds) fine.
    The former French finance minister quit his post as head of the International Monetary Fund in 2011 after being accused of sexually assaulting a maid in New York, a charge that was later dropped.
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