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Strauss-Kahn arrived at the police station in the city of Lille, according to Associated Press, and is to answer to questions in an investigation conducted by police, which is probing a case of prostitution that happened in France and Belgium.
Prostitutes interrogated by the police said they had sex with DSK in 2010 and 2011 in a ritzy hotel in Paris, a restaurant in the capital and in Washington.
Two men who are tied to DSK have already been placed under preliminary investigation in France for organizing a prostitution ring and misuse of corporate funds. DSK’s name came up in the discussion last fall, and the former IMF head’s lawyers demanded that he be allowed to tell his part of the story.
The lawyers say he never knew that the women at the parties he attended were prostitutes. DSK is said to have participated in swingers’ parties, which could have easily misled him into thinking that the women were not prostitutes.
BBC reveals that sleeping with prostitutes is not against the law in France, provided that the person to do this is 18 years old, but that the suspicion hovers over the former IMF head that he had sex with women paid from corporate funds, which would be illegal, since officials are not allowed to receive any sort of gifts from the companies. BBC adds that in case the judges consider he knew some women were prostitutes, he could face charges.
The investigation has already been named by French press “the Carlton affair,” after the name of the hotel in Lille where many of the meetings happened. The police wants to know if the prostitutes were being paid with corporate funds of a big French construction company.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is said to have demanded the judges to testify in order to put an end to the scandal around his name. He also said he would take legal action against what he considers an invasion of his privacy.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been accused in the United States of America last year of allegedly having sexually assaulted a member of the personnel in the hotel. The charges were dropped after the prosecution realized that there was no way they could convince a jury to buy the alleged victim’s story, given that she had a set of problems with the law herself, such as connection with prostitution activities, or lying to the authorities in order to obtain a social house, and so on.
The charges were dropped and the case dismissed, but the French banker lost his position as head of the International Monetary Fund, and also any chance to become the candidate of the Socialists for the presidential election this April.
When he came back to France, after being released from American custody, he was in the situation of being confronted with another rape allegation, as writer Tristane Banon wanted to accuse him of attempted rape. Banon said she had been in an apartment with him while he was member of the National Assembly and that it was there he attempted to have sex with her. The inquiry launched by French judicial system was also dropped.
The candidate of the Socialists to the election became Francois Hollande, who is said to lead in the polls and to win the next election as he runs against the incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy.
DSK was considered by many analysts the man to surely be able to beat the incumbent president in the elections, which prompted some to say that what happened to him last year was a setup intended to bar his way to the competition. No evidence was offered however to support that allegation.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence released a document last year in which they alleged that DSK was removed from IMF because he had found out that the United States gold treasure at Fort Knox had been gone. Russians offered no substantial evidence either.
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