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What does the IMF scandal rock ?


The IMF scandal has rock the IMF leadership, the French presidential race and even possibly the EU fiscal plan.



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April 22, 2010: IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, speaks during a news briefing at the 2010 WB/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington. Strauss-Kahn has been taken into custody by New York City police and is being questioned in connection with a sexual assault of a hotel maid on Saturday, May 14, 2011. NYPD top spokesman Paul Browne says Dominique Strauss-Kahn was pulled off an Air France flight to Paris on Saturday afternoon at John F. Kennedy International Airport after he left the Manhattan hotel. Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the IMF, has not been charged.


IMF chief and possible French presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged on Sunday with sexual assault, including an attempted rape, in New York City.



Shake inside IMF: Leadership Disarray


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Veteran watchers of the International Monetary Fund said they expect IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will resign soon due to the gravity of attempted rape charges he faces in New York.


"Guilty or not ... I don't think he'll be finishing out his term even to the end of the week," said Colin Bradford, an IMF expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.


"It's just one of those things that collapses under its own weight," particularly since this isn't Strauss-Kahn's first scandal, said Mr. Bradford, a former senior economist for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.


The IMF will hold an informal board meeting, also later Sunday, to discuss how to proceed following Mr. Strauss-Kahn's arrest, the fund said.


The arrest ofInternational Monetary Fund(IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual assault accusations in New York throws into disarray not only the IMF's leadership but also its central role in the financial rescue of several struggling European nations.



Shake inside France: Presidential Race


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The charges, if true, would strike a blow to France's current politics. Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister who ran unsuccessfully for the Socialist Party nomination for French president in 2006, was widely expected to resign from the IMF in the coming months to run for the French presidency as a Socialist candidate.


But a French government minister said on Sunday he could not rule out that IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest for alleged sexual assault was the result of a set-up with political motives.


'We cannot rule out the thought of a trap,' Mr Henri de Raincourt, minister for overseas cooperation in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, said in a broadcast interview. 'I refuse to have a personal opinion and say,


'Yes it was a trap,' or 'No, it wasn't a trap.' I don't know,' he said. 'I note that this has happened just after the affair of the car and the suit in a short space of time,' he added, referring to sniping at the Socialist presidential hopeful for using a Porsche and wearing tailor-made clothes.


MF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest on sex charges looks to have wrecked his hope of beating Nicolas Sarkozy for the French presidency and turned the race on its head, amid whisperings of dirty tricks.


Strauss-Kahn had polled as the brightest hope for France's opposition Socialists for the 2012 election, well ahead of Mr Sarkozy, but his arrest threw the race into uncertainty which could play well for the flagging president.


Socialist leader Martine Aubry called the news a 'thunderbolt', while one French government minister refused to rule out rumours that the scandal was the result of political dirty tricks. Strauss-Kahn, known as DSK, was widely expected to run for his party's nomination and sniping by political rivals was growing in an election fight that risked getting dirtier.


Opponents sneer at his jet-set lifestyle, while in the background lurk long-standing claims about Strauss-Kahn's conduct in private with women, little covered by the French media which rarely probe into politicians' private lives.



Shake inside EU: Rescue plan delayed?


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The arrest of the head of one of the world's most important financial institutions came at a time when the global economy was still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis -- and while Europe was reeling from a still-unfolding series of government debt crises.


The incident Saturday will undoubtedly cast a cloud over the IMF's role in addressing the rescues, as Strauss-Kahn was seen as a forceful leader in responding to the European debt crisis.


The arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn may cause some delays to an EU/IMF bailout plan but will NOT affect Greece's resolve to implement reform, a senior Greek government official told Reuters on Sunday.


He was due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and attend a meeting of euro zone finance ministers in Brussels on Monday to discuss the euro zone debt crisis and how to handle Greece's bailout as the country struggles to meet targets.(Reuters/WSJ/AFP/BBC/AP)
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