21:15 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe head of the IMF, Dominique Strass-Kahn, is being questioned by New York police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid, say reports.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, was taken off a plane at John F Kennedy airport minutes before it left for Paris.<\/p>\n
Police said he had not been charged.<\/p>\n
The married former French finance minister is also a leading Socialist Party politician and is considered a possible candidate in the 2012 presidential election.<\/p>\n
He is due to attend a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels on Monday to discuss the bailouts of Portugal and Greece.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for New York’s Port Authority said they had arrested Mr Strauss-Kahn at the request of the New York Police Department (NYPD).<\/p>\n
He is now in the custody of the NYPD, who said he was co-operating fully with their enquiries.<\/p>\n
Spokesman Paul J Browne said the allegations had been made by a 32-year-old woman who worked at the Manhattan hotel, which has been identified as the Sofitel near Times Square.<\/p>\n
The IMF had no immediate comment on the incident.<\/p>\n
‘Error of judgement’<\/span><\/p>\nMr Strauss-Kahn ran for leadership of the French Socialist Party in 2007 but eventually came second to Segolene Royale.<\/p>\n
Later that year, he was appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n
In 2008, he was investigated by the IMF board over his relationship with a female member of his staff.<\/p>\n
The board ruled his actions “reflected a serious error of judgment” but that the relationship had been consensual. He apologised to IMF staff and his wife, French TV personality Anne Sinclair.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn has not yet announced whether he intends to run in the 2012 French presidential elections but is widely expected to do so.<\/p>\n
He has been the subject of much media attention in France in the past week over allegations that he lives a luxury lifestyle incompatible with his Socialist position.<\/p>\n
His supporters have said the reports are part of a smear campaign against him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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