IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has consented to a medical examination over allegations of serious sexual assault.<\/p>\n
Ms Strauss-Kahn, who was arrested on Saturday, denies attacking and attempting to rape a hotel maid.<\/p>\n
He had been due to appear in court on Sunday but the hearing has been postponed until Monday to allow the forensic tests to be carried out.<\/p>\n
The married former French finance minister is also considered a possible Socialist candidate for the presidency.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn – often referred to in France simply as DSK – had been detained at JFK airport on Saturday night as he prepared to fly to Europe.<\/p>\n
He is believed to have been in New York on personal business and does not have diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\n
The 62-year-old was kept overnight in a special unit for sexual harassment in New York’s Harlem borough and on Sunday, charged with “criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment, and attempted rape”.<\/p>\n
Police say the 32-year-old woman who made the allegations has formally identified him in a line-up.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn had been scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday in Berlin and then attend an EU finance ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Monday.<\/p>\n
Correspondents say his detention is likely to complicate ongoing efforts to stabilise the finances of struggling eurozone member states.<\/p>\n
The Euro fell half a cent to $1.4063 when Asian markets opened on Monday – a six-week low against the dollar – reflecting concerns about the impact the arrest could have on bailouts plans for Portugal and Greece.<\/p>\n
‘International conspiracy’<\/strong><\/p>\nSpeaking outside court in Manhattan, lawyer William Taylor said Mr Strauss-Kahn had “willingly consented to a scientific and forensic examination”, adding that he was “tired but fine”.<\/p>\n
A second lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said his client “intends to vigorously defend these charges and he denies any wrongdoing”.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn’s wife, prominent French journalists Anne Sinclair, has also said she believes he is innocent.<\/p>\n
“I do not believe for one second the accusations brought against my husband,” she said in a statement sent to the AFP news agency on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn’s allies have also rallied behind him.<\/p>\n
Paris regional councillor, Michelle Sabban, told AFP: “I am convinced it is an international conspiracy… This is a new form of political assassination.”<\/p>\n
Socialist legislator Jean-Marie Le Guen said: “The facts as they were reported today have nothing to do with the Dominique Strauss-Kahn whom we know.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile a centre-right opponents of Mr Strauss-Kahn’s, Dominique Paille, said if true it would be “an historic moment, but in the negative sense, for French political life”.<\/p>\n
“I hope that everyone respects the presumption of innocence. I cannot manage to believe this affair,” he told French TV.<\/p>\n
But the leader of the National Front party, Marine Le Pen, said Mr Strauss-Kahn had been “definitively discredited”.<\/p>\n
And Mr Strauss-Kahn’s biographer, Philippe Martinat, said: “I think his political career is over.”<\/p>\n
Mr Strauss-Kahn had not yet announced plans to run for the French presidency in next year’s elections but had widely been expected to do so.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Hugh Schofield, in Paris, says Mr Strauss-Kahn has been riding high in the polls and was seen as having a genuine chance of beating President Nicolas Sarkozy.<\/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
In 2008, he was criticised by the IMF board for an affair with a subordinate member of staff. The board said the affair had been consensual but reflected a “serious error of judgement”.<\/p>\n
In his absence, John Lipsky has been appointed acting managing director of the IMF.<\/p>\n
The fund’s director of external relations, Caroline Atkinson, said the organisation remained “fully functioning and operational”.<\/p>\n
Source: BBC\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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