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15 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 01:31 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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Mr Strauss-Kahn was removed from a Paris-bound flight minutes before it was due to take off<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being questioned by New York police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid.<\/p>\n

Mr Strauss-Kahn was taken off an Air France plane at John F Kennedy airport minutes before it left for Paris.<\/p>\n

Police said they expect to charge him later on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The married former French finance minister is also a leading Socialist Party politician and is considered a possible candidate for the presidency.<\/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 detained Mr Strauss-Kahn at the request of the New York Police Department (NYPD).<\/p>\n

He is now being questioned by the NYPD, which said he was co-operating fully with their enquiries.<\/p>\n

Officials said he would have the charges read to him at some point on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“He will be charged with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment,” said NYPD spokesman Paul J Browne.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman stands accused of a sexual attack on a maid at a Manhattan hotel.<\/p>\n

Mr Browne said the allegations had been made by a 32-year-old woman who worked at the hotel, which has been identified as the Sofitel near Times Square.<\/p>\n

The woman has been treated at hospital for minor injuries, said Mr Browne.<\/p>\n

He said Mr Strauss-Kahn appeared to have left the hotel “in a hurry”, leaving his mobile phone and other personal belongings behind.<\/p>\n

The IMF had no immediate comment on the incident.<\/p>\n

‘Error of judgement’<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Strauss-Kahn ran for leadership of the French Socialist Party in 2006 but lost to Segolene Royale.<\/p>\n

He was appointed managing director of the IMF the following year.<\/p>\n

Mr Strauss-Kahn has won praise for his stewardship of the IMF, which he has guided through difficult times including the recent world financial crisis.<\/p>\n

But 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

The BBC’s Michelle Fleury in New York says the incident comes at a crucial time for Mr Strauss-Kahn, and could derail any ambitions he might have for France’s top job.<\/p>\n

Mr Strauss-Kahn has not yet announced whether he intends to run in the 2012 French presidential elections, but had widely been expected to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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