Former director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was summoned Tuesday to investigators at Lille in connection to the Carlton file and would be placed in custody, sources close to the investigation said on Saturday, according to AFP. He was summoned for Tuesday morning for a hearing at the former barracks of the gendarmerie in Lille, said the source, confirming the information published in the regional newspaper La Voix du Nord. Former Socialist minister will be assisted by a lawyer during his custody, which can take up to 48 hours, said a source close to the file. The summons came in the weekend at home of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Paris.
The name of the former favorite in the race for the French presidency was heard several months ago in the case of prostitution and abuse of social goods involving businessmen and policemen. More people have been indicted in this case. DSK asked several times to be heard, to defend himself, in this case. He might be heard as a witness or placed in custody by investigators, given the elements against him in this case. Former Director of the IMF expressed his desire to be heard since mid-October, to end what he describes as “insinuations and hazardous extrapolation” and “hatefully”. In November, his lawyers denounced a “genuine media lynching”.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn should be questioned on the parties where he took part, especially in Paris and Washington, to determine if women who participated in them were prostitutes. It also should be raised the problem of possible compensation for these parties, primarily organized by one of his friends, Fabrice Paszkowski, responsible for a medical device company, and David Roqueta, former director of a subsidiary group Eiffage.
According to lawyers of the two men accused in this case, their clients have already answered this question negatively. If judges investigating the case would say that there are serious allegations about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, he could be prosecuted for complicity in prostitution and abuse of social goods. While he was a favorite of the Socialist Party for the presidential elections in 2012, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has seen his rising abruptly stopped in 2011 after being arrested for the sexual assault of a chambermaid in the Hotel Sofitel New York.
Criminal charges were dropped, but he will compare in a civil lawsuit in the United States, and the case triggered a cascade of revelations about the private life of DSK, “greedy for sex” or “sick” according to some, or “victim” of a plot, according to others. He himself acknowledged his taste for “libertinism” but denied any act of violence or anything illegal.
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