New York .- New York prosecutors have formally complained to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful confinement, as reported by the police in this U.S. city in which he was arrested early this morning as he prepared to fly back to France.
It is expected that Strauss-Kahn, who was considered the favorite candidate of the Socialists for the French presidential elections of May 2012, to appear on Sunday it before a judge in upstate New York. The defense attorney for Strauss-Kahn, Benjamin Brafman, has said that his client will plead "not guilty" innocent of all charges.
Strauss-Kahn has been arrested at JFK International Airport after being reported for allegedly sexually assaulting a hotel worker who was staying in the U.S. city, located in Times Square. Strauss-Kahn was arrested aboard the plane that would travel to Paris minutes before it took off. The woman who signed the complaint is 32 and works as a cleaner at the hotel and fled the room after the incident.
"The Police Department of New York found that (Strauss-Kahn) had left the hotel, leaving the mobile phone in the room," said department spokesman previously, Paul Browne. "We knew he was on a plane of Air France. Delayed so that we could get off the plane and is now in custody for questioning "had indicated.
The hechosLa Police reported the alleged incident took place at the Sofitel hotel located on West 44th Street near Times Square . 'The woman was taken by emergency medical service to the Roosevelt Hotel where she was treated for minor injuries account ", he explained Browne. According to the spokesman, the woman entered the room thinking that there was no one and" has had detectives that (Strauss-Kahn) emerged from the bathroom naked "went to the place where she was" pushed into a room "suite and" began to sexually abuse "her.
The woman managed to escape but Strauss-Kahn caught and brought back "to the bathroom, where he committed sexual abuse, according to the story" of the applicant, and then "attempted to lock her in the room," added Browne. According to police spokesman in New York, Strauss- Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity for his position.
Under the laws of the State of New York, a criminal sexual act includes forcing a person to perform oral sex. TrayectoriaStrauss-Kahn took office at the head of the IMF in November 2007 by a five-year term expires next year. Previously, he was finance minister in France, a member of the French National Assembly and Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
This is not the first time the director of the IMF is in the eye of the hurricane. In October 2008, he had to apologize for a "misjudgment" by an 'affair' with an IMF economist who was his subordinate. The investigation exonerated him of harassment and abuse of power, but was warned by the board of IMF member countries that never again engage in inappropriate behavior.
Strauss-Kahn apologized to the woman, Piroska Nagy, and his wife as employees of the IMF by the disturbance caused. 
It is expected that Strauss-Kahn, who was considered the favorite candidate of the Socialists for the French presidential elections of May 2012, to appear on Sunday it before a judge in upstate New York. The defense attorney for Strauss-Kahn, Benjamin Brafman, has said that his client will plead "not guilty" innocent of all charges.
Strauss-Kahn has been arrested at JFK International Airport after being reported for allegedly sexually assaulting a hotel worker who was staying in the U.S. city, located in Times Square. Strauss-Kahn was arrested aboard the plane that would travel to Paris minutes before it took off. The woman who signed the complaint is 32 and works as a cleaner at the hotel and fled the room after the incident.
"The Police Department of New York found that (Strauss-Kahn) had left the hotel, leaving the mobile phone in the room," said department spokesman previously, Paul Browne. "We knew he was on a plane of Air France. Delayed so that we could get off the plane and is now in custody for questioning "had indicated.
The hechosLa Police reported the alleged incident took place at the Sofitel hotel located on West 44th Street near Times Square . 'The woman was taken by emergency medical service to the Roosevelt Hotel where she was treated for minor injuries account ", he explained Browne. According to the spokesman, the woman entered the room thinking that there was no one and" has had detectives that (Strauss-Kahn) emerged from the bathroom naked "went to the place where she was" pushed into a room "suite and" began to sexually abuse "her.
The woman managed to escape but Strauss-Kahn caught and brought back "to the bathroom, where he committed sexual abuse, according to the story" of the applicant, and then "attempted to lock her in the room," added Browne. According to police spokesman in New York, Strauss- Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity for his position.
Under the laws of the State of New York, a criminal sexual act includes forcing a person to perform oral sex. TrayectoriaStrauss-Kahn took office at the head of the IMF in November 2007 by a five-year term expires next year. Previously, he was finance minister in France, a member of the French National Assembly and Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
This is not the first time the director of the IMF is in the eye of the hurricane. In October 2008, he had to apologize for a "misjudgment" by an 'affair' with an IMF economist who was his subordinate. The investigation exonerated him of harassment and abuse of power, but was warned by the board of IMF member countries that never again engage in inappropriate behavior.
Strauss-Kahn apologized to the woman, Piroska Nagy, and his wife as employees of the IMF by the disturbance caused.
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