NEW YORK ? Hours after its chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested in connection with the alleged sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the International Monetary Fund yesterday named John Lipsky as acting managing director.
Mr Lipsky, the IMF?s first deputy managing director, is a former United States Treasury executive and onetime banker at JP Morgan. An IMF spokesman said Mr Lipsky, who has been overseeing the logistics of the bailout of the Greek economy, would meet with members of the IMF board in Washington later in the day.
?In line with standard IMF procedures, John Lipsky, first deputy managing director, is acting managing director while the MD is not in DC,? the IMF said in a statement. ?Mr Lipsky will chair the informal Board session today.?
Strauss-Kahn, 62, was awaiting arraignment yesterday in Manhattan. The New York Police Department formally arrested him at 2.15am on Sunday ?on charges of criminal sexual act, attempted rape, and an unlawful imprisonment in connection with a sexual assault on a 32-year-old chambermaid in the luxury suite of a Midtown Manhattan hotel yesterday?, a police spokesman said.
The police said the 32-year-old maid had entered Mr. Strauss-Kahn?s US$3,000-a-night suite at the Sofitel New York at Saturday, 1pm, believing it was unoccupied.
As she was in the foyer, Strauss-Kahn ?came out of the bathroom, fully naked, and attempted to sexually assault her?, said the spokesman.
?He grabs her, according to her account, and pulls her into the bedroom and onto the bed. She fights him off, and he then drags her down the hallway to the bathroom, where he sexually assaults her a second time.?
At some point during the assault, the woman broke free, and ?she fled, reported it to other hotel personnel, who called 911.When the police arrived, he was not there?.
One law enforcement official said that the investigation uncovered forensic evidence that would contain DNA.
Strauss-Kahn ? widely expected to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidency ? was apprehended by detectives in an Air France plane awaiting for takeoff for Paris, and immediately turned over to detectives from the Midtown South Precinct, officials said.
The woman who told the police she was sexually attacked by Strauss-Kahn picked him out of a police lineup yesterday. After making the identification, she left in a police van amid a gaggle of reporters.
Strauss-Kahn?s lawyer Benjamin Brafman said yesterday morning that his client ?will plead not guilty?.
Strauss-Kahn, a former French Finance Minister, had been expected to declare his candidacy for presidency soon, after three and a half years as the leader of the IMF. He was considered by many to have done a good job in a period of intense global economic strain.
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