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NEW YORK: The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport just minutes before it was to take off for Paris on Saturday and arrested in connection with the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said.
Strauss-Kahn (62), who was widely expected to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, was apprehended by detectives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the first class section of the jetliner, and immediately turned over to detectives from the Manhattan Special Victims squad, which covers the part of Manhattan where the hotel is, said officials.
The New York Police Department took Mr. Strauss-Kahn into custody, where he was “being questioned in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel chambermaid earlier this afternoon,” said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, department's chief spokesman, on Saturday night. “He is being arrested for a criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment.”
A spokeswoman for the office of the Manhattan district attorney said prosecutors were investigating the matter and were expected to bring formal criminal charges against Mr. Strauss-Kahn by early Sunday.
Reached by telephone, Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer, said he would be representing Mr. Strauss-Kahn with William Taylor, a lawyer in Washington.
“We have not yet been able to meet with our client and we may have more to say on tomorrow [Monday],” said Mr. Brafman, who said he had been contacted late Saturday. He said Mr. Strauss-Kahn was being housed at the Police Department's Special Victims Unit.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn, a former French Finance Minister, had been expected to declare his candidacy soon after three and a half years as the leader of the Fund, which is based in Washington, where he was considered by many to have done a good job in a period of intense global economic strain, when the bank itself had become vital to the smooth running of the world and the European economy.
His apprehension came about 4:40 p.m., when two Port Authority detectives suddenly boarded Air France Flight 23, as the plane idled on the tarmac, said John P.L. Kelly, a spokesman for the agency.
“It was 10 minutes before its scheduled departure,” said Mr. Kelly. “They were just about to close the doors.”
Mr. Kelly said Mr. Strauss-Kahn was travelling alone and was not handcuffed during the apprehension.
“He complied with the detectives' directions.”
courtesy: 'The Hindu'
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