35064744 Strauss Kahn said goodbye to the IMF staff
Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday, August 29, visited the former place of work – the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, reported Agence France-Presse. During a brief visit, announced the press service of the IMF, Strauss-Kahn said goodbye to the staff fund, and also met with the new head of the organization – Christine Lagarde. To comment further press office IMF abstained. One of the officers present at the meeting said the fund AFP, that Strauss-Kahn farewell with the team was "warm and emotional." In one of the classrooms at the IMF Headquarters in a meeting with Strauss-Kahn, said he came to a few hundred people who cheered the former head of the fund applause. Dominique Strauss-Kahn took over as director of the IMF in November 2007. May 14, 2011, Strauss-Kahn, the then head of the IMF, was arrested in New York on charges of sexual harassment to the maid hotel Sofitel Nafissatu Diallo. May 18, in custody, Mr. Strauss-Kahn announced the resignation from the post of Managing Director of the Fund. New head of the IMF at the end of June 2011 was elected compatriot Strauss-Kahn – Christine Lagarde. In the course of an investigation into Strauss-Kahn at the prosecutor's office in doubt the veracity of the testimony maid. It was found that Diallo Nafissatu repeatedly lied during interrogation, and provided false information regarding the circumstances of her immigration to the United States. August 23 criminal case against Mr. Strauss-Kahn had been closed, all charges against him dropped. Shortly after the dismissal, Strauss-Kahn had returned the documents and he was able to leave the United States. However, after the court hearing at which he was acquitted of the charges, Strauss-Kahn said that before returning to France, he intends to visit the headquarters of the IMF and say goodbye to the staff.
